This sapphic, high-comedy adaptation of Cyrano de Bergerac is written by trans playwright Laura Anthony and inspired by the true story of a resolution to add “acts of indecency by females” to then already-extant buggery laws of Great Britain. A comedy of errors jam-packed with crossdressing, longing, and queerness, QUEERANO, OR A VERY GREAT MISCHIEF has delighted audiences in NYC, New Zealand, the UK, and beyond.

It is 1921, and Lord Thurston believes it would be “a very great mischief” to inform women that queerness is not only a male pastime – little does he know his daughter, Roxane, has already given her heart to a Miss Christine Granville. Or… has she?

Antony is hopelessly in love with Roxane. Roxane is in love with Christine – but a false Christine, comprised entirely of letters Cyrene wrote, and the way that Antony looks in a dress. Christine – the real one – is in love with no one, as far as anyone can tell, and Lewis is in love with the real Antony, but also the false Christine Antony, and apparently can’t tell the difference.

And Cyrene, the poor fool, believes Roxane traded her skirts for breeches, just to climb into the heavens and paint the stars herself.

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