Production still for "Hosanna". Robert Essex as Hosanna. Photographer: Sandra Matlock
Hosanna
05 June 1980 – 28 June 1980 Playbox Theatre
Playbox Theatre Company,
Theatre International
A Canadian play set in the Montreal apartment of Hosanna, a drag queen who dresses as Elizabeth Taylor's Cleopatra. This tragi-comedy centres on the relationship between Hosanna and Cuirette, an aging "stud" and gay biker, after they have returned from a Halloween party.
The play deals with issues including gender identity, sexual identity, the ignorance and acceptance of ageing, and social expressions of homosexuality, using the protagonist's dilemmas as to explore the complexities of Quebecois identity.
The production had a return season at Playbox in November of the same year.
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