Photos of, left to right, Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss provided by DKC/O&M
The Tony Award-nominated and Olivier Award-winning writers of the internationally acclaimed musical Six will host a special, late-night performance of Circle Jerk on June 11 at 10:30pm, in honor of Pride month.
Circle Jerk is hosting these wild, unhinged pride performances throughout their run and for the first time ever, this production will be presented in person and online simultaneously.
Pride performances include:
Saturday, June 11th at 10:30pm
Friday, June 17th at 10:30pm
Saturday, June 18th at 10:30pm
Friday, June 24th at 10:30pm
Saturday, June 25th at 3pm
In Circle Jerk, it’s winter on Gaymen Island, a summer retreat for the homosexual rich and fame-ish. This off-season, two White Gay internet trolls hatch a plot to take back what’s wrongfully theirs. Cancellations, meme schemes, and political and erotically flip flops abound as three actors playing nine parts play out this chaotic live-streamed descent into the high-energy, quick-change, low-brow shitpit of the internet.
With Circle Jerk, co-writers and performers Michael Breslin and Patrick Foley, joined by Cat Rodríguez, take inspiration from Charles Ludlam’s The Mystery of Irma Vep and sci-fi genre films like Ex Machina to send up plotlines about the crisis of technology in relationship to humans and the concept of “reality.” Circle Jerk is directed by Rory Pelsue and includes dramaturgy by Ariel Sibert.
Tickets on sale now. Please visit https://circlejerk.live/. In-person Pride Performance tickets start at $19. Livestream tickets for all performances are available on a sliding scale from $5.99-$49.99.
Toby Marlow is half of the writing duo behind Six. Writing/Performing credits include: Hot Gay Time Machine (Trafalgar Studios) co-written with Lucy Moss and Zak Ghazi-Torbati, in which he performed the role of Hot Gay Toby. The group has also collaborated frequently with Courtney Act (of “RuPaul’s Drag Race fame). Toby has enjoyed writing stand-up songs for cabarets, concerts and charity events. Oh, and he also once stepped in as Catherine Parr for two performances in London’s West End, but he’d be way too modest and shy to mention it in the Playbill obvs. @thetobymarlow
Lucy Moss is half of the writing duo Marlow and Moss and co-director of Six. Six has a number of productions open internatioinaly, including an open-ended run on Broadway and in London’s West End, a UK tour, and an Australian tour. Write/Director credits include: Hot Gay Time Machine (Trafalgar Studios), with whom she has also written for “Courtney Act’s Christmas Extravaganza” (Channel 4) and Act’s forthcoming album and tour Fluid. Directorial credits include: Pelican: The Cat Man Curse (Soho Theatre), Pelican: Fisk (Edinburgh Fringe), Wasted (Edinburgh Fringe) and current production of Legally Blonde at Regents Park Open Air Theatre in London. Credits as Associate/Assistant include Boris: World King (Trafalgar Studios). @mucyloss
