PRODUCTION CONCEPT

In 2015, two people with the same genitals were permitted to marry each other in all fifty United States. With a great deal of emphasis put on the “equality,” queer people are left to figure out exactly what “marriage” entails, sorting through 10,000 years of recorded nuptial baggage. Doing just that, this real-life engaged American couple wades through their personal and cultural histories to investigate what marriage even means for a white lesbian and an Asian American non-binary bisexual. Marrying a pan-historical interrogation of “traditional” wedding practices with a combined thirty years of performance art training, the couple leaves no stone unturned in their attempt to define and refine what gay marriage is before signing on the dotted line. Concocting deeply weird takes on everything from ancient Greek threshold crossing and sixteenth century European bridal journeys to the obscured history of American miscegenation law and 21st century cake smushing debates, the performers disassemble, and perhaps ruin, the wedding as it is currently understood. From the aisle walk to the first dance to the confounding queer wedding night, the couple pontificates, playacts, and pirouettes their way to answering: “is this a wedding?”