Academy of Music Theatre

The Academy of Music Theatre will be presenting Rachel Mars in her performance of "Your Sext Are Shit: Older Better Letters." The production is a new filthy, funny and intimate solo show, triangulating the sex and love letters of long dead artists, contemporary sexts and a meditation on the construction of the queer female body; asking how do we write ourselves and for whom? The show features letters from Joyce, Frida Kahlo, Georgia O'Keeffe, Mozart, Charles Bukowski, Radclyffe Hall, Eleanor Roosevelt and others. It also includes sexts sent to Rachel by anonymous donation. It is a Queer Archive of longing, communication and sex acts.The Academy is collaborating with Middlebury College and Williams College on the tour. Middlebury College will be offering a symposium on Gender and Sexuality that our area Five Colleges' students and faculty will be invited to attend via Zoom. Following the performance at the Academy of Music, Rachel will offer a Q&A session.