The Italian company Nina’s Drag Queens explores drag queen aesthetics, blending songs, film extracts and lip-syncing with theatre, live acting and choreography.

In Alma, two characters are driven mad by love: painter Oskar Kokoschka, who constructed a life size doll of his ex-lover Alma Mahler, and the nameless woman who delivers the telephone monologue to her ex-lover in Cocteau’s La Voix Humaine. Intertwining these stories of final goodbyes with an ironic touch, between woman as muse and woman as victim of love, a male actor in drag investigates femininity.

Written and performed by Lorenzo Piccolo, directed by Alessio Calciolari, translated by Maggie Rose.