Created and Performed by Marguerite French
Directed by Angela Vega
Powered by Coin & Ghost
Hollywood Fringe Festival 2023
June 1, 8, 9, 10, & 12
Asylum @ Thymele Arts (California Room) // 5481 Santa Monica Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90029
Julie Jean Kristin Bird
“We have been taught to fear the very things that have the potential to set us free.”
― Alok Vaid-Menon
”Julie Jean Kristin Bird,” created and performed by Marguerite French, is a prismatic exploration of gender through the glass of August Strindberg’s “Miss Julie”. Diving into different characters as facets of one consciousness, the solo performer smashes media and senses to illuminate the many channels that make up oppression — and the reflected possibilities of liberation.
“Julie Jean Kristin Bird” is not a typical “Miss Julie” adaptation; it is a reclamation.
Julie Jean Kristin Bird runs 45 minutes and will be performed without an intermission.
Accessibility Notes
Our venue is fully wheelchair accessible, with an elevator to the second floor performance space and reconfigurable seating. For this performance, masks are encouraged (but not required).
48 hours to conceive, rehearse, and perform a new immersive piece? Sounds completely unhinged, we’re in.
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Public performance(s) April 21st at the Nocturne Theatre. Link in bio for tickets.
4 weeks ago
MERCH MADNESS
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New items just hit the C&G store — plus some fan favorites and the return of our most-requested merch ever (hint: it’s the pants). Link in bio to upgrade your wardrobe!
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#DripDrop
1 month ago
Might fuck around and dismantle the patriarchy…
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NEXT MONTH, we’re cooking up something extraordinary with @rogerq.mason and @thespomancer — a devised LYSISTRATA adaptation that centers TGNC sex workers and their clients. Link in bio to submit!
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#latheatre #newplay #queer #trans #theater #coinandghost
1 month ago
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, UNCLE KENDALL (A.K.A. DAVE THA MAGE).
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He just keeps getting more handsome/talented/kind over time, it’s infuriating (but also, really nice). Couldn’t imagine any of this without ya. Swipe to the end for his villain origin story.
1 month ago
HAPPY BIRTHDAY to our BRILLIANT Managing Director, @dangerfrench! ❤️❤️❤️ (…just to be clear, this is a photo of them in “acting” mode, not in “managing director” mode)
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Drop a comment with your favorite Marguerite memory!
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(📸 by @meredithadelaide)
4 months ago
Aaaaand that’s a wrap on the 2023 World Tour! Spoiler alert: y’all ain’t ready for what C&G’s 2024 is gonna look like 👻
4 months ago
“Sometimes we need repetition, of some sound that is, of course, still ringing from before. To double it.”
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It never really feels like “goodbye” with this show. But that doesn’t make it any easier to walk away. Six years of development, three productions (two and a half, but who’s counting), 21 actors across eight roles, the best damn design & production team in the business, and way, way, WAY too much theatrical haze. We navigated the apocalypse, heartbreak, and equity contracts to bring this thing to life. And it was fucking perfect every time.
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Love you, MAMA. Thank you. ❤️
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(Production stills by @meredithadelaide, plus a bunch of iPhone miscellanea from Zach)
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#coinandghost
4 months ago
“Maybe it never ends. Maybe time is a suspension, and the more we think about anything, the more we realize that the sound Lance made when he died was the same sound the bomb made when it detonated, and that sounds, once they are made, can’t ever be unmade or even stop.”
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Happy closing, Mama. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
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📸: @meredithadelaide
5 months ago
// What do you see when you look at me? //
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Two more, Mama. Both sold out. Let’s do the damn thing.
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Photos by @meredithadelaide
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#finishstrong #theatre #storytelling #losangeles #coinandghost
5 months ago