Life's A Drag! by Julie McNamara.
This is a 45-minute musical comedy piece using
poetry, narrative and songs, 1 performer, 1 backing track and
a plethora of tinsel.
The piece is in three short scenes introducing
three characters that together create Hairy OMara, the
failed drag queen. The central character, Hairy O'Mara was dreamed
up after a scurrilous reviewer in the Gay press described Julie
as: 'The Mary O'Hara of the Lesbian and Gay circuit!' Resisting
that image of the squeaky-clean torch singer, she turned it
on its head and Hairy OMara was born. Hairy is an angst-ridden
female impersonator whose looks are beginning to fade. Life
is cheap on the drag circuit and queens are two-a-penny. Hairy
is on a desperate search for a new turn to lift his/her flagging
career.
"The show is all the more poignant given
that Julie spent time in the psychiatric services undergoing
treatment for homosexuality and Gender Dysphoria! Well having
seen the show, I can't say the treatment was a great success..."
(Anja White)
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