JESUS QUEEN OF HEAVEN
SOLD OUT
Written and performed by Jo Clifford
Director: Rachael Rayment
Music: Adam Clifford
Set Designer: Sarah Paulley
Lighting Designer: George Tarbuck
Costume Designer: Morna Baxter
Jesus is a transsexual woman. And it is now she walks the earth. This is a play with music that presents her sayings, her miracles, and her testimony. And she does not condemn the gays or the queers or the trans women or the trans men, and no, not the straight women nor the straight men neither. Because she is the Daughter of God, most certainly, and almost as certainly the son also. And God’s child condemns nobody. She can only love...
Jo is steadily gaining a reputation as a performer and poet. She was last seen at the Tron in her God’s New Frock in 2003; more recently in Leave to Remain as part of the Mental Health Festival in the Citz, and in Hidden City 5 in a secret location somewhere in Glasgow. Her play An Apple a Day was a sell out this spring at the Traverse and Oran Mor; Spam Fritters was broadcast on Radio Scotland this summer; her translation of Lorca’s Yerma has just been published by Nick Hern Books; her Losing Venice opens at the Traverse in December and her latest play, Every One, has its premiere at the Royal Lyceum this coming spring.
Rachael trained at Harvard and the Moscow Arts Theatre. She has worked as a dramaturg and director for the American Repertory Theatre, NY Theatre Workshop and Underground Zero Festival in the USA, and the Accidental Festival in London.
Adam is currently Meaker Fellow at the Royal Academy of Music, London. He has won numerous awards as both a percussionist and composer.
Presented at part of sh[OUT]: Contemporary art and human rights.
Glasgow Museums, Gallery of Modern Art, LGBT Social Justice programme.
