Mushroom Tales is a queer drag theatre performance exploring what humans can learn from fungi through a speculative, post-apocalyptic lens. Drawing on drag, performance art, storytelling, movement, and ecology, the work asks how queer, mycelial ways of living might help us reimagine community, care, and survival beyond heteronormative and extractive systems.

Set in the ruins of a post-apocalyptic landscape, the performance follows an obsessive mycologist searching for answers to human-made destruction. Returning to his lifelong object of study—fungi—he encounters a series of fungal beings: tricksters, decomposers, mess-mates, and shape-shifters of the undergrowth.These characters challenge his understanding of what is considered “natural,” exposing how dominant narratives of progress, productivity, and individualism are rooted in heteronormative and colonial logics.

Through exaggerated drag aesthetics and embodied storytelling, Fungi become teachers of non-binary existence, porous boundaries, and collaborative survival. Rather than fixed identities or linear growth, they model networks of care, interdependence, and constant transformation.

Photo credit: © Avan Aventura (Instagram: @avan_aventura)

For bookings: Mushroomtales.show@gmail.com
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