Opening

Dragana is back with a whole bouquet of strange, sexy, absurd and slightly dangerous characters. Get ready for an eclectic ride – from horror to comedy, with plenty of camp, politics and farce!

Performers:

Charlie
You reach your dream, and then what? More and more and more, while a little worm inside keeps eating away at the emptiness. Unfortunately, Charlie doesn’t have the answers. He can only share this strange feeling with you.
Charlie is a drag performer exploring different kinds of masculinity and their limits, searching, discovering, and surprising you along the way.

Gilė Neskubà
Once known as La Rouge, they now emerge as Gilė Neskubà.
she and he and they (masc.) and they (fem.) witty and -y (fem.) and -y (masc.) and -y (in gender confused way… because.. f the gender)… always ready to give everything for an idea they believe in…
…expect political satire… the phenomena of multifunctional multi-spirals… eggs rolling out of the womb of Lithuania’s mother and everything else… that has by now become commonplace in political discourse…

Kūnuogas
Kūnuogas is your saviour. Like any good priest, he cares about status and money, so this time he has become a Career Boy. At an HR meeting, he will teach you which terms are no longer appropriate when talking about the LGBT community, how not to be poor, and how to properly worship the suited man one office floor above. A performance about capitalism and
sadomasochism.

Estrada
All this drag king ever wanted was to become the Prince of Lithuanian estrada. But why settle for a prince’s title when you can become president? And what you can’t get the nice way, you can always take — just like Antanas Smetona did in 1926.
Will we witness a showdown between the newly resurrected presidents Smetona and Grinius? Who will win the battle for power, glory, and, most importantly, the presidential title?

Querelle
Your iconic Querelle is tired of fighting this dictatorial world. How much can one girl take? Manifestos, protests, revolutions – Querelle has already made it into the Lithuanian queer archive. What more do you want from her?
Now she wants to fight a little less and love a little more. When the world is burning, it is important to turn towards the people who matter. Heart to heart.

The opening shorts programme brings together four queer competition shorts from Singapore, Greece, Argentina, and Latvia: Before the Sea Forgets, Gorgones, MDB, and Cleanliness – four distinct stories of desire, discovery, intimacy, and the complexities of queer life. Read more about them here.