Julie/Pronoun I
directed by Julie Atlas Muzstarring Julie Atlas Muz
An insurrection against “Mad Queen May of England” is the pretext for nudity, music, dance, and narcissism in Williams’ The Pronoun ‘I’ -- subtitled “a short work for the lyric theater.” Williams’ sister Rose sometimes claimed she was the Queen of England. The staging is by Julie Atlas Muz, a Whitney Biennial performance artist and Miss Exotic World 2006. Boylesque stripper Tigger, Mr. Exotic World 2006, plays the Queen’s lolling poet/lover whose every sentence begins with “I.” The naked context is a smorgasbord of Muz’s choreography that seems to channel the preoccupations of sexual expression as politics championed by Williams and his Ptown comrade, Valeska Gert.