Review: ‘Lavender Men’ by About Face Theatre has a strong narrator but struggles to tell its story

Shea Petersen, Matt Martin and Julian joolz Stroop in “Lavender Men” by About Face Theatre at Den Theatre.

According to Mason’s bio, the Black and Filipinx playwright aims to use “the lens of history to disrupt the biases that divide rather than unite us.” Inspired by Mason’s time living in Chicago, “Lavender Men” mines that endless source of mythmaking for Illinoisans: Honest Abe. The narrator, TaffetaJulian “joolz” Stroop) — described in the play’s synopsis as a “fat, multi-racial femme” — conjures the ghosts of Lincoln and Elmer Ellsworth to spin a tale of love, loss and self-acceptance.

Narratively, the connections between past and present often feel stretched. The most effective parts of Taffeta’s story show her journey toward self-love in the present. In the opening scene, she recites a litany of fatphobic, misogynistic and racist language that has been hurled her way by anyone from one-night stands to passersby on the street.

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