Michael LaRocco

Realistic and codified performance in theater is based primarily on the premise that performance can be approximated into neatly aligned categories. Much like human behavior and the modalities of culture, performance is not always a lesson in either/or, but rather a lesson in disunity. Nowhere do we see disunity more realized than in the world of drag performance where the audience enters into a nether world where realism and codified performance unite as strange bedfellows.