Cary Sasso (2024): Ari Fuss as Julia, Sophia Adler as Portia, Julie Sandler as Imogen, Abigail Espinal as Viola, and Julia Labusch as Rosalind/Ganymede
Lance Fule and Abigail Espinal (2024): Abigail Espinal as Viola and Julia Labusch as Rosalind/Ganymede
Lance Fule and Abigail Espinal (2024): Ari Fuss as Julia, Julie Sandler as Imogen, Abigail Espinal as Viola, and Julia Labusch as Rosalind/Ganymede
Lance Fule and Abigail Espinal (2024): Ari Fuss as Julia, Sophia Adler as Portia, Julie Sandler as Imogen, and Julia Labusch as Rosalind/Ganymede
Lance Fule and Abigail Espinal (2024): Abigail Espinal as Viola and Julia Labusch as Rosalind
Cary Sasso (2024): Ari Fuss as Julia, Julie Sandler as Imogen, Abigail Espinal as Viola, and Julia Labusch as Rosalind/Ganymede
Lance Fule and Abigail Espinal (2024): Ari Fuss as Julia, Sophia Adler as Portia, Julie Sandler as Imogen, Abigail Espinal as Viola, and Julia Labusch as Rosalind/Ganymede
Cary Sasso (2024): Ari Fuss as Julia, Abigail Espinal as Viola, and Julia Labusch as Rosalind/Ganymede
Lance Fule and Abigail Espinal (2024): Ari Fuss as Julia, Sophia Adler as Portia, Julie Sandler as Imogen, Abigail Espinal as Viola, and Julia Labusch as Rosalind/Ganymede
Cary Sasso (2024): Ari Fuss as Julia, Sophia Adler as Portia, Julie Sandler as Imogen, Abigail Espinal as Viola, and Julia Labusch as Rosalind/Ganymede
Lance Fule and Abigail Espinal (2024): Ari Fuss as Julia, Julie Sandler as Imogen, Abigail Espinal as Viola, and Julia Labusch as Rosalind/Ganymede
Cary Sasso (2024)
About
The Shakespearean Crossdressers Support Group is an original play written by Cary Sasso. The play imagines an afterlife for Shakespeare’s five crossdressing characters: Julia from The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Portia from The Merchant of Venice, Imogen from Cymbeline, Viola from Twelfth Night, and Rosalind from As You Like It. Speaking sometimes in iambic pentameter verse and sometimes in prose, these reborn characters bicker, quote, quip, and break down, talking about rape culture, grooming, sexuality, gender, transness, and what it means to be a crossdresser, dropping a healthy helping of (metrically suitable) f-bombs along the way. Featuring a Claire’s-jewelry-wearing Julia, a devilishly bigoted Portia, a neurotic lesbian Viola, a genderfluid firecracker Rosalind, and an Imogen who’s just trying to make sure that nobody goes to jail for aggravated assault, this play is a love letter to the nerdy queer kid who was way to into their eighth grade Shakespeare unit.
This production was produced with the support of the Stanford Major Grant.
Cast
Julia - Ari Fuss
Portia - Sophia Adler
Imogen - Julie Sandler
Viola - Abigail Espinal
Rosalind/Ganymede - Julia Labusch
Creative
Writer/Director - Cary Sasso
Videographers - Lance Fule and Abigail Espinal