The Politics of Fabulousness at Quarantine Players

Gary hopes to re-connect with his estranged older sister Kay, who is visiting Kansas City, where Gary now lives, for an academic conference. Gary lives with Eytan, who was Kays high school best friend; now Eytan and Kay hate each other. Eytan and Gary write humorous songs which Gary sings as a character called Ovaria Strange. Kay considers drag to be misogynist: a caricature of women a kind of minstrel show. Eytan considers Kay a humorless feminist spouting tiresome theory and jargon, ridiculously teaching African-American studies when shes white, (which is also a kind of minstrel show, he argues), though Kay is married to Curtis, whos black, and Eytan has a problem with Kay teaching Women & Gender Studies when (he contends) shes too uptight and homophobic to talk to college kids about gender.