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Wet Mess 'TESTO'

“TESTO is genderpunk at its finest – it embodies so perfectly the feeling of seizing your autonomy... Watching it feels like taking my first deep breath in a very long time.” The Skinny ★★★★★

“...brilliantly executed, and Wet Mess is a deeply promising artist to watch in years to come.” EdFest Mag ★★★★★

“Wet Mess’ shows are not only thrilling and wild but somehow sweet and life enhancing.” The Guardian

In TESTO Wet Mess Wet Messifies the messiness of life with teeth and one chin hair; exploring transitions, testosterone, the edges of drag, the blurry line between performance and reality, character and self, dreaming and day-dreaming, knowing and feeling, and the soupy spacey mess in between it all. Meet me at the computer of confused edges, for some guttural sexuality, too many images, wearing our insides on the outsides, and waiting for the hateful crunchy key change.

Expect moustache meals, desktop dreams, dykey desires, underwhelming overwhelm, trotting, lolling, humping, titting, farting, pinching at the dull flesh of life here and here and here and here where the magical is in the mundane and made up shit becomes real.

About Wet Mess

Wet Mess (they/them) works across drag, movement direction, theatre, and live art. In 2021 they won Not Another Drag Competition (RVT) and have since been largely working in drag, cabaret and nightlife. In 2023 they were part of Travis Alabanza's Sound of the Underground (Royal Court) and Emma Frankland’s Galatea at Brighton Festival.

Their film work has been funded by Jerwood Arts and screened at Thunderdance, Raindance, London Short film festival, ICA and The Photographers gallery and won multiple awards. Movement direction work has included choreographing videos for Will Young and London Grammar. In 2018 they won a Fringe First at Edinburgh Festival with the theatre company ThisEgg. Solo and collaborative works have been shown in multiple contemporary contexts such as the Tate Britain, The Southbank, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Battersea Arts Centre, The Place, Shoreditch Town Hall, Walker Gallery, and Baltic39.

Commissioned by The Yard Theatre, Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge Junction

With support from Arts Council England, Battersea Arts Center, Quench Gallery, Queercall Folkestone, Colchester Arts Centre, Raze Collective. Winner of Here and Now commission for Edinburgh Festival.

BSL interpreted performance Sunday 11 May 6pm