Revew: The queer love story in Prism’s ‘La Maupin’ is both poetic and thrilling
Kelsey Milbourn and the cast of ‘La Maupin: The French Abomination’ (Courtesy photos) As part of ATTPAC’s The Elevator Project season, Prism Movement Theater (PMT) opened its latest show La Maupin: The French Abomination earlier this month for a three day run.
The show gets a second life this week at the Latino Cultural Center. Prism opens the show on Friday, July 25. In short, see it if you can for a forgotten piece of queer history but also a piece of art that had a little bit of everything: dance, drama, opera and even a damn aerial artist.
This review is based on its initial run and staging at Hamon Hall. Instead of a stage, the audience flanked the action on both sides as if watching a fashion show.
In some ways, watching La Maupin was akin to that experience. Gorgeous costumes, exciting swordplay and dramatic movement paraded up and down the space which made for a stunning spectacle under the eye of director Kelsey Milbourn who also wrote and starred in the production.
