The fourth show in Volcano's Shape of Things to Come season is a piece about non-binary identities and how they get lost in queer spaces. A male-presenting non-binary person so often must be chameleonic in queer spaces. Night after night, I reinvent myself as someone I am not. Trapped in these self-destructive cycles, how are we supposed to find queer happiness? Is anyone in these spaces truly happy? How do we get out, and how do we get to be happy just being us?
You are invited to join Luke in a microcosm of an archetypal queer club, with music, singing, words, drag, dancing and more, as they attempt to figure out who this place is for and where is the perfect place for those who don’t belong. There is no obligation to bring your authentic self. This Thursday and Friday at 7:30 and 9:30pm.
LUKE HEREFORD is a Queer, Welsh and Wales-based Theatre Maker. Initially training as a musical theatre performer, they tell stories through an unapologetically Queer lens, often utilising a celebratory, effervescent aesthetic, led by movement and music and almost always inspired by Queer culture. They have worked with Sherman Theatre, The JMK Trust, National Theatre Wales, The Carne Trust and Lincoln Center Theater. In 2022, their solo autobiographical cabaret play Grandmother's Closet completed a critically acclaimed run at Summerhall for Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and a sold out run at Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff. Since 2021, Luke has been performing as their drag persona Esther Parade.