Taylor Mac’s Holiday Sauce… Pandemic! at FirstWorks

Taylor Macs irreverent seasonal spectacular Holiday Sauce reimagined as a virtual celebration!Christmas as calamity2020 Ibsen Award winner and MacArthur Fellow Taylor Mac and his long time collaborators, designer Machine Dazzle, Music Director Matt Ray and producers Pomegranate Arts join together to celebrate the holidays in all of their dysfunction. Holiday Sauce Pandemic! will blend music, film, burlesque and random acts of fabulousness to reframe the songs you love and the holidays you hate. There is more to the holidays than rampant capitalism and gift-giving and in Taylors world, creativity and imagination are their own spirituality. This holiday season will be bittersweet for so many Taylor Mac reminds us of the collective power of our chosen families, a message that will be of particular resonance this year when so many have lost so much.Taylor Macs Holiday Sauce Pandemic! was commissioned by the International Ibsen Festival and the National Theatre of Norway with additional support from FirstWorks with Brown Arts Initiative, along with an international consortium of co-commissioners.
Ages: Performance may include mature content and is intended for adult audiences.