Photo Credit: Gislina Patterson

Shakespeare with bite.

Welcome to a beginner’s lecture on Shakespare’s First Folio text analysis. The lecture covers: grammar and spelling, historical context, misplaced memories, climate disaster, violence, Sam Rockwell movies, shoplifting, masculinity, nepotism, propaganda, inflation, T4T, and talking dogs. No lunch provided.

i am your spaniel, or, A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare by Gislina Patterson is a drag performance lecture in which a female Shakespeare scholar named Gislina Patterson, played by an undereducated trans man named Gislina Patterson, reads A Midsummer Night’s Dream too closely and turns into a dog. It’s about the family as a site of control, theatre as state propaganda, being in love, becoming a traitor, transformation, desire, Iggy Pop, being good, being bad, and what it means to be a man.

“Dasha & Gislina’s works remind me of Jarman, Greenaway & Abramovitch in their ability to articulate a singular vision & create revolutionary works.”
– Sadie Berlin, Performance Artist and Author

Created by We Quit Theatre
Gislina Patterson – Playwright, performer
Dasha Plett – Director, dramaturg, performer