Lay of the Land
Description: LAY OF THE LAND is Tim Miller’s saucy, sharp-knifed look at the State of the Queer Union during a time of trial! Careening from his sexy misadventures performing in 45 States, to Marriage Equality street protests, to the electoral assaults on gay folks all over the country, to his life as a grade-school flag monitor, to choking on cheap meat caught in his 10 year old gay boy’s throat, LAY OF THE LAND friskily gets at that feeling of gay folks being perpetually on trial, on the ballot, and on the menu! LAY OF THE LAND is a “lay” in all kinds of ways: a sex-assignation, a queer citizenship map, and of course a narrative ballad with a recurrent refrain! (Miller’s favorite way-down-the-list definition for “lay”!)
Bio/Link: Miller is an internationally acclaimed performance artist whose creative work as a performer and writer explores the artistic, spiritual and political topography of his identity as a gay man. Miller’s performances have been presented all over North America, Australia and Europe in such prestigious venues as Yale Repertory Theatre, the Institute of Contemporary Art (London), the Walker Art Center (Minneapolis), and the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Miller has taught performance at UCLA, NYU, the School of Theology at Claremont and at universities all over the U.S. He is a co-founder of two of the most influential performance spaces in the United States: Performance Space 122 on Manhattan’s Lower East Side and Highways Performance Space in Santa Monica, California. For more information, go to www.timmillerperformer.com/ and timmillerperfomer.blogspot.com/
Location: Los Angeles, Calif.
Miller’s LAY OF THE LAND enters territory as exhilarating as it is meaningful. Miller lays out his unapologetically renegade viewpoint with exemplary economy and sardonic humor. Marriage equality is the thematic undercurrent against which reminiscences of various activist and performance landmarks coalesce into something larger than the sum of their considerable parts. The final apotheosis stands high in Miller’s canon, which, together with the overarching relevance, makes LAY OF THE LAND a vivid, must-see achievement.
—David Nichols, The Los Angeles Times
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