Q on Stage and New York Q News’ own Tadeusz von Moltke, whose other credits include NBC’s “The Blacklist,” DJ Khaled and Jay Z video “I Got the Keys,” and the Samsung/Punchdrunk Virtual Reality Project, will present and perform a multi-media premiere reading of selections from “The Hollywood Adriana: A Cautionary Tale of Damaged Goods” on January 23, 2018 at 7:30 pm, on the opening night of the Dixon Place “Rainbows Across the Diaspora, the Queer Text Reading Series,” sharing the bill with poet, performance artist, and activist Linda LaBeija.
Tad intriguingly describes his “Hollywood Adriana” as “Dimensional Fiction, a poetic novella designed to be performed, a tragic-comedy in a kaleidoscope of styles—prose, poetry, screenplay, opera libretto,” and “a modern-day story of obsession, sex, love, murder, innocence, and catharsis,” incorporating “silent film, ballet, and opera … in a surreal world populated by the present-day protagonists,” as well as “Sarah Bernhardt, Ramon Novarro, Rosa Ponselle, Hector Berlioz, hustlers, drag queens, and altar boys.”
The premiere will take place in the Lounge at Dixon Place, 161A Chrystie Street, in the East Village. Admission is free, but reservations are recommended, at http://dixonplace.org/performances/qt-rainbows-across-the-diaspora-2018-01-23/.