But the play is true to the studied theater at New York spirit of adventure and, after a University. “Men on Boats” while, notes Backhaus, one for- premiered during the Clubbed gets that it’s women and trans Thumb Summerworks men playing the roles. “It’s part festival at the Wild Project in of the truth of the play. There June 2015. Clubbed Thumb are different acting styles, and Playwrights Horizons too; any successful mission remounted the comedy for a and any successful play needs special engagement last year at a wide variety of people—a Playwrights Horizons. Now it’s union, a community—because being performed by companies the trip was all about men around the country. moving in a group while in an “One of the most exciting isolated region.” productions was at Arizona Historically, there are many State University, near the instances of women (trans Grand Canyon,” says Backor not) passing as men to haus, adding how inspiring infiltrate arenas traditionit was to “watch 18- and ally closed to them: jobs, war, 19-year-olds get the message adventure and exploration of diversity and inclusion early among them, though this often on.” A rollicking adventure went unrecognized and unretale “shouldn’t be the exclucorded. “Trans people have sive domain of anyone,” she always existed; it is powerful says. “Neither should all the to watch a trans person in joy and drudgery of being on this play” because it deepens the river—of being seasick but the material by turning the triumphant.” [x] Gardner12-10-12R2_Gardnr_Dec2012R2 12/11/12 2:15 PM Page 1 www.speakeasystage.com prism, says Backhaus, who
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