Boston Pride : Entertainment : All The Kings Men

Entertainment 2008 at Boston Pride Festival - June 14 - City Hall Plaza - starts at Noon

ALL THE KINGS MEN

All The Kings Men is sexy melt-in-your-mouth and through your seat theater with hilarious pee-your-pants-and- on-your-neighbor moments, lip-synched, choreographed and improvisationally personality-driven comedic, political, and purely entertaining homo/hetero/bi/a/pan-sexual snort-laughing costume fest.

All The Kings Men (ATKM), is an award winning, all female, physical theatre ensemble that has been performing original, cabaret style club shows the past 6 years throughout Boston and New England . They push the boundaries and explore stereotypes of gender identity through comedic and dramatic story telling, set to music. They utilize physical theatre, dance, comedy, lip-synch and character based sketch work in their shows.

ATKM is a comic and sexy modern day twist on Shakespeare, where women play all the roles. Through their masterful use of character, physical communication, dance, and theatrical convention they have transcended the conventional drag king show and brought it to new levels. Their years of steady performance and large fan base has helped them to become New England 's premiere drag king troupe. All The Kings Men was the 2004 winner of the Boston Phoenix's Reader's Choice "Best Kept Secret" Award, and Curve Magazine's choice as one of the ten nationwide winners of the "2006 Best Lesbian Theatre Award".

"We are a world filled with such characters as Grandmothers, Heroes, Performers, High School Kids, Bar Flies, Strippers, and Office Assistants. We are eight artists who explore and exploit the grays in life. We stand together on a blank palette and paint pictures in a range of femininity and masculinity that resides in all of us. We build a stage not only to entertain but also to speak to and play with the humor in life, the absurdity and the magic in life. Our characters are empowered with material to say, feel, and experience; our characters are born to share. In these days, where the Queer community makes daily headlines and our discussion of human rights is once again revisited, All The Kings Men comes to the table with a point of view about humanity that is refreshing, base, fun, and bold."