Nominated for 2 IT Awards -- Performance Arts Production and Solo Performance!
Read the great reviews!: The Young Ladies Of
"All of [Mac's] plays are self-revealing, but The Young Ladies Of may well be his most personal... rarely has someone wearing so much make-up appeared so naked." -- The Village Voice (Read the whole article...)
"With his unique blend of bleak humor, personal revelation, political engagement, folk-inflected music, and astonishingly elaborate, gender-twisting, gorgeous grotesque costumes, Mac has emerged as an essential figure in the downtown performance scene." -- Time Out New York (Read the interview with Taylor...)
HERE is pleased to present and encore performance of The Young Ladies Of, written and performed by Taylor Mac.
Stationed in Vietnam in 1968, Lt. Robert Bowyer placed an advertisement asking women ages 19-26 to write him. He was flooded with letters from hundreds of young ladies responding to his ad. Juxtaposing images of Lt. Bowyer in Vietnam with Mac’s own unique gender-bending aesthetic, Mac uses the letters, original text and songs to bridge the gap between perceptions of masculinity and femininity, past and present, and red and blue states.
