‘Nancy,’ soaked in ‘80s nostalgia, is ‘queer AF’
‘Nancy’ Through April 21Mosaic Theater Company at Atlas Performing Arts Center1333 H St., N.E.$53-$70Mosaictheater.org Set in 1985, smack dab in the middle of the Reagan years, Rhiana Yazzie’s “Nancy” is totally soaked in nostalgia: shoulder pads, high hair, Van Halen, etc.
For some theatergoers, it jogs the memory and for others serves as an introduction to an alien era. Out director Ken-Matt Martin describes the production (now at Mosaic Theater) as “queer AF.” He continues, “But that’s true with everything I touch.
My aesthetics and interests are unapologetically queer. When you first walk into theater, you see a big ass picture of Nancy’s face.
The whole play is kind of set on her face.” Martin, who puts his age as “somewhere over 30,” gives a brief rundown via telephone: “‘Nancy’ places two women on parallel tracks and we get to watch them on a collision course.
