Shall I Compare You to a Summer’s Day? Friday 17, 8pm

A glance leads to a smile and a rendez-vous: every love story begins the same way. These narratives are stored in songs and poems as in Shakespeare’s titular sonnet 18. In Shall I Compare You to a Summer’s Day?, a female narrator who wishes to tell the story of a love between two men encounters a polyamorous chorus of lovers, and this oft-told tale is multiplied. Heteronormative dramaturgy is challenged polyphonically: lovers ask each other about threesomes, Grindr contacts and past dates…