Dickie Beau
Blackouts
US Premiere
Thu, Oct 6–Sat, Oct 8
Thu, Oct 13–Sat, Oct 15
at 7:30pm
All performances of Blackouts at the Abrons Arts Center have been cancelled due to unexpected travel circumstances
Abrons Arts Center
466 Grand Street
New York, NY 10002
For his first major US solo show, Dickie Beau conjures the wayward spirits of Marilyn Monroe, Judy Garland, and journalist Richard Meryman. In uncanny impersonations performed to a shadowy soundscape of their own voices, he merges reality with illusion and his identity with those of his idols. The result is an ethereal reflection on icons in exile and the lingering impressions they’ve left behind.
Tickets $35
Co-presented with Abrons Arts Center.
Supported by the British Council.
“This is lip-syncing to spoken word. It’s about channeling voices, imagining them going through my body, which becomes a conduit for other things, like glitches in machines.”
Drag fabulist Dickie Beau embodies counter- cultural figures and movie stars alike. Miming to spoken word, Beau has revitalized the tradition of lip synching with the showmanship of a drag artist and the melancholy of a clown. At home in clubs, theaters, and cabarets alike, he received the Oxford Samuel Beckett Theatre Trust Award in 2014.