Open Flame Theatre

The Garden is an experimental, queer opera about the roots of internalized transphobia. This surrealist performance revolutionizes the form of opera, incorporating medieval and electronic musical influences as well as circus arts such as acrobatics and aerial silks. Composed and scored live by Crune and created by Open Flame Theatre, an all queer/trans/GNC ensemble, The Garden is an underworld journey of pain, fury and grief in concert with beauty, pleasure and reclamation. The heart of this performance asks: how do you uproot oppression? This question itself is a journey; one that for us begins with how internalized transphobia manifests in us as individuals, and in our communities.