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Edwin Ramirez «Run Daddy Run – Queer Crip Becoming»

A person of color perceived as male with curly hair featuring bright red tips is wearing a black-and-white patterned top with abstract splashes of color. The person has a black beaded necklace and a red lightning bolt-shaped earring. The background is in a neutral beige tone.

In «Run Daddy Run - Queer Crip Becoming», Edwin Ramirez embarks on a humorous and touching search for the formative father figures from his own development. In a 60-minute stand-up comedy odyssey, the queer, disabled artist introduces six daddies - regardless of gender - who shaped Edwin into the person they are today. The diverse spectrum of influences ranges from the arrogant superstar surgeon to missed conversations with his biological father and hallucinogenic encounters with the ghost of William Tell. With biting humour and vulnerable openness, the performance addresses questions of identity, belonging and queer desire beyond normative body images and life plans.

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  • Duration: 60 Minutes   
  • Language: English   
  • Open audio description
  • German surtitles   
  • Sign Language (DSGS)   
  • Wheelchair accessible
  • Relaxed Performance

The diverse spectrum of influences ranges from the arrogant superstar surgeon to missed conversations with his biological father and hallucinogenic encounters with the ghost of William Tell. With biting humour and vulnerable openness, the performance addresses questions of identity, belonging and queer desire beyond normative body images and life plans. Ramirez not only dissects the absurdity of the authoritarian institutions - from the family, migration office and invalidity insurance (IV) to medicine - that prescribe identities, but also deconstructs the coming-of-age genre and transforms it into a lustful queer crip coming of age. The audience becomes an accomplice on a journey of self-empowerment: at the end of the evening, a creative process will decide which of the characters deserves the title of ultimate daddy - an act of coronation that also celebrates the transformative power of anti-racist, anti-ableist and queer stand-up comedy. 

 Credits

Director/Production: Edwin Ramirez   
Concept: Edwin Ramirez   
Dramaturgy: Nele Solf e Eva Bracey   
Costumes: Edwin Ramirez   
Co-production: Arsenic – Centre d'art scénique contemporain, Losanna 

Eddie Ramirez Comedy

 

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