Boston New Works Festival - Knock Down Drag Out
Thursday, June 20, 2024 at 07:30pm
Boston New Works Festival
Calderwood Pavilion
527 Tremont Street
$25
Moonbox Productions is thrilled to announce its 3nd Annual Boston New Works Festival taking place June 20th – June 23rd in the Calderwood Pavilion and the BCA Plaza Theatres at Boston Center for the Arts. The Boston New Works Festival will be a weekend long festival celebrating new original plays by local playwrights and will showcase eight original plays on six different stages at the Calderwood Pavilion and the BCA Plaza Theatres.
Knock Down Drag Out
When Boston’s only drag club is threatened with demolition, four queens band together and fight with everything they have to hold onto their chosen home while struggling with the question of what happens to the people on the fringe when the fringe no longer exists.
Developers want to tear down Antoine’s, Boston’s only drag bar, in order to build some high-rise condos. Zonna, who has been performing at the club for 2/3 of her life, has other ideas. After being visited by the ghost of her drag mother Crystal Crawford, Zonna bands together with her drag queen sisters Ivanka (the club’s 70 year old bartender and former chanteuse), Mx (a gender fluid college kid) and Sharia Law (a hardscrabble queen who has fought for everything she’s got) and stages a “drag in”, where they will live in the club to protest its demolition, while fending off their neighbor, Mrs. Chao (an 80 year old Chinese woman who is on a permanent neighborhood watch), as well as the gentrification of the neighborhood they all love.
Main Stage
Tickets - $25.00
