OH DA HORROR! Friday the 13th

Long before horror became increasingly integrated into Ethereal Sacrilege’s interdisciplinary work, it was already living inside the drag. For Ellipsis Queen’s HOHOHO: Edit 2: O’Da Horror at Magnet Theater, Ethereal created a horror-comedy drag number balancing grotesque imagery with sexuality, glamour and humor. Performed in a red dress made for the number, the piece demonstrates an earlier version of a philosophy that still defines the work today: frightening does not have to mean humorless, and beauty does not have to be safe.