THEATRE + COMEDY

Unhinged Productions presents the regional premiere of She Stoops to Comedy, by David Greenspan. Directed by Cheryl Kaplan. A delightful gender-bending romp! Running April 8 through May 1, at Frenetic Theater 5102 Navigation Blvd. Houston 77011.

SHE STOOPS TO COMEDY is a fun loving riff on the spirit of Shakespeare, fracturing time and spatial settings while pushing gender-bending to the hilarious extremes. In AS YOU LIKE IT's most famous speech, the melancholy Jacques gripes that "All the world's a stage and all the men and women are merely players."

Greenspan takes that up a notch: "The world's a fuckin' drag show."

Whereas Shakespeare often employs gender-bending in times of crisis - AS YOU LIKE IT's Rosalind dresses as a boy upon her exile to the Forest of Arden - Greenspan sees gender as a matter of everyday contrivance, with men and women enactign the roles they think they were meant to perform.

Adult language and content.

Unhinged Productions is a non-profit organization that exists to explore the GLBT experience through the performing arts. Since 1998, Unhinged Productions has served the community by producing plays and musicals that speak, often with humor, to the quest for individuality, the struggle for equality and the hope for a better future. By highlighting the pain and joy of the GLBT experience, Unhinged Productions hopes to create common ground between diverse communities and to promote greater understanding for all people.