Queer writer/performer DEL SHORES is the comic genius who created classic gay plays/films such as Sordid Lives and Southern Baptist Sissies that made us all re-think about what it’s like to be queer in the Deep South. It wasn’t just Brother Boy that gave Leslie Jordan the best role of his career, it was also the whole wonderfully absurd cast of wacky characters that gave us a whole new meaning of the world that they were apart of.
Shores possess an enviable talent of being able to milk humor out of the most mundane daily events which according to him are always so much funnier because they are all in the South. He also riffs on the fact that all of his work now gets hom recognised as a ‘minor gay celebrity’
‘Stealing’ the idea from Pirandello’s Six Characters In search of An Author ……. or rather ‘borrowing it’ ….. this latest film is of his one man show all based on his observations of life around him. With his rapid firing wit, he starts by explaining why this six one-of-a-kind characters he has met in real life that haven’t quite made it into one of his plays, films or TV shows. Yet.
His memory is peppered with his talent for exaggeration (although he will no doubt claim that every word is true) as his introduces us his coterie of 5 women and one man. There is his Aunt Bobby Sue who has a heart of gold even though she is a rapid Republican racist; Yvonne an anti-vegetarian waitress who we cannot fail to love when she goes off on her anti P..C. rant; and elderly Sarah who is managing to smoke and drink herself to death in between using her inhaler and screaming at Trump on the TV
Shores has a great rapport with his audience the stage and so easily wins over the over because the fact is no now matter how eccentric and batty these characters are, he loves them all very much, By the end of this wee film, we do too.
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