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Playing Ace
a New Asexualities Play Festival in Madison, WI
A short play festival to celebrate and uplift asexualities and our worldmaking! Plays will be brought together in the first Anthology of Asexual Plays after being produced in the festival!
A short play festival to celebrate and uplift asexualities and our worldmaking! Plays will be brought together in the first Anthology of Asexual Plays after being produced in the festival!
The “Playing Ace” play festival is an opportunity for folks who are interested in showcasing and exploring asexual worldmaking to connect and share their work! We aim to provide opportunities for playwrights to produce and then publish their work, to expand the reach of these important stories. Over the next year, we will be collecting and carefully reviewing play submissions to be showcased in a staged reading held in Madison, Wisconsin in spring 2027. Playwrights will have the support of a dramaturg during the play rehearsal process and will see how live audiences react to their play. After the play festival, playwrights will have an opportunity to join a proposal to publish their play in the first anthology of asexual plays!
The “Playing Ace” play festival is an opportunity for folks who are interested in showcasing and exploring asexual worldmaking to connect and share their work! We aim to provide opportunities for playwrights to produce and then publish their work, to expand the reach of these important stories. Over the next year, we will be collecting and carefully reviewing play submissions to be showcased in a staged reading held in Madison, Wisconsin in spring 2027. Playwrights will have the support of a dramaturg during the play rehearsal process and will see how live audiences react to their play. After the play festival, playwrights will have an opportunity to join a proposal to publish their play in the first anthology of asexual plays!
Overall, we recognize that there is a growing need to share stories about asexual lives, experiences, and perspectives. As asexuality becomes more of a topic for discussion in the world, it is important that we create spaces where stories and perspectives can be shared. We believe that theatre is a fantastic place to come together and create new communities, and with the proposal for an anthology, we want to ensure that these stories are shared with as many people as possible.
Overall, we recognize that there is a growing need to share stories about asexual lives, experiences, and perspectives. As asexuality becomes more of a topic for discussion in the world, it is important that we create spaces where stories and perspectives can be shared. We believe that theatre is a fantastic place to come together and create new communities, and with the proposal for an anthology, we want to ensure that these stories are shared with as many people as possible.
What Asexualities Means to Us
What Asexualities Means to Us
Regarding identity, we define asexuality/aromanticism as umbrella terms that describe experiences of little to no sexual/romantic attraction. The field of asexualities, though, more broadly encompasses and explores the implications these experiences have on our normative concepts of intimacy, love, friendship, kinship, personhood and life-making. Asexualities offers a lens through which we may (re)interpret the ways we connect with each other, reveals the sociocultural structures that enforce narrow forms of relating, and elucidates new and more authentic modes and means of connection.
“In Telling Sexual Stories (1995), Ken Plummer draws attention to the culturally created quality of sex and sexuality through emphasizing that they are not facts but rather fictions, that they are stories.
“...Thus, we live in a world of sexual stories and it is crucial to consider not only what stories are being told but also how they are being told and who does the telling. As Plummer (1995: 6) clearly asserts, ‘now the time has certainly come for personal sexual stories to be told – at least for some groups’ and that ‘stories can be told when they can be heard’ (1995: 120).
“Listening to stories about asexuality is a considerable step towards recognizing sexual and gender diversity in contemporary times. This challenges normative assumptions on intimacy that privilege heterosexual monogamy and the biological family unit, presume binary cis gender identities, essentialize binary sexual identities, and view sexual or romantic desire as necessary, amongst other impositions.”
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Would you like to contribute? Submit your play below!
Would you like to contribute? Submit your play below!
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