About 805-4821
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805-4821 is a trans coming out story made out of other stories: a dialogue from Shakespeare’s Hamlet, a half-remembered swim lesson, and an 80,000-word Facebook correspondence. 805-4821 explores memory, identity, and love in an age of apocalypse. Not all men are men. Welcome to the movies!
Initially conceived for an overhead projector, We Quit Theatre transformed 805-4821 into a live-typed digital performance for Google Docs during the Covid-19 pandemic and, compelled by this new form, have continued touring the show digitally.
A “queer auto biopic that transcends all the conventional boundaries” (Mooney On Theatre), 805-4821 blends reality, fiction, documentation, and desire to flip the trans-coming-out-narrative on its head. 805-4821 uses its minimalist setting as a canvas for a torrent of language, a profound theatrical experiment in which text itself becomes the performer, existing in playful tension with many forms, including theatre, expanded cinema, and auto-fiction, exploring childhood trauma, transition, depersonalization, and action movies.
created with the support of the Manitoba Arts Council
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Know Before You Go!
PLAIN LANGUAGE DESCRIPTION: 805-4821 is a performance that takes place in a Google Doc, with occasional links to YouTube videos. A long text is copy-and-pasted one line at a time into the Google Doc. The project describes events surrounding the author’s gender transition. As the author tries to evoke what that time in her life felt like, she blends factual information with fantasy and fiction, particularly William Shakespeare’s play Hamlet.
AUDIENCE EXPERIENCE: This performance will take place mostly in this google doc.
Text will appear at a moderate pace, and will sometimes be accompanied by moving .gifs.
You’ll need to follow along with Dasha’s cursor throughout the show. You will be prompted to click links to youtube videos. Instructions on when to return to this document will be included in those videos. There is an optional in-doc post-show conversation
AGE RATING: 14A (Click below for more information.)
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Discussed/Suggested Content: sex, gender dysphoria, violent intrusive thoughts, and sexual trauma.
Depicted Content: One image you will see during the performance features a large fire, and another features a sheet stained with fake blood
VENUE ACCESS NOTES: The performance may be viewed on a personal device anywhere with internet access, OR in-person with us at the Studio Theatre in the Fringe Theatre Arts Barns.
The in-person option is a live viewing of a virtual show projected on a screen at Studio Theatre inside the Fringe Theatre Arts Barns. All of the building is accessible step free, and the entrance is located on the west side of the building, directly north of Orange Hall. Keep an eye out for Found Festival signage that will point the way! Paid parking is available throughout the immediate area, the closest being the parking lot north of Knox Church. Free street parking is available on 84 Avenue, and throughout the area. The facility has wheelchair-accessible gender neutral washrooms. Please visit the site for Full Content Advisories.
Cast and Creative Team!
Dasha Plett Writer & Performer
Gislina Patterson Director & Dramaturge
Dubbed “the hottest collective to come out of Winnipeg since the Royal Art Lodge” by the Globe and Mail, We Quit Theatre is a performance collaboration between trans artists Dasha Plett and Gislina Patterson. Since 2018, their works 805-4821, i am your spaniel; or, A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare by Gislina Patterson, Passion Play, and Men Explain Things to Us… And We Like It! ave toured Canada extensively, both digitally and in-person. Visit the quitters online at wequittheatre.ca
Follow the creative team on Instagram!
@wequittheatre
@princessdasha.fm (dasha)
@badweirdo (gislina)