Caps Lock Theatre Presents PUSSYFEST VI: You Cannot Destroy Pussyfest

Caps Lock Theatre presents PUSSYFEST VI: You Cannot Destroy Pussyfest on Tuesday, January 22, 2019 at 8pm at Town Stages, 221 West Broadway, NYC. Tickets are $25 and can be purchased at https://youcannotdestroypussyfest.brownpapertickets.com/.

Caps Lock Theatre (Mariah MacCarthy, Melissa Lusk, Leta Tremblay) is the recipient of a 2018 Sokoloff Arts Fellowship.

PUSSYFEST VI features monologues about the body, custom-written for New York's finest femme and gender-defying actors. An exaltation of the body, this is Caps Lock's sixth annual Pussyfest.

This year's Pussyfest is a fundraiser for Third Wave Fund(www.thirdwavefund.org). Third Wave Fund is the only activist fund led by and for women of color, intersex, queer, and trans folks under 35 years old in the US. They ensure young women, queer, and trans youth of color have the tools and resources they need to lead powerful movements, and that they have a seat at the table within philanthropy. Third Wave supports gender justice groups from the ground up with rapid response grants, long-term funding for emerging groups, and capacity building.

The evening will also feature music from:

You Cannot Destroy Me

A Joan of Arc musical

Music & Lyrics by Melissa Lusk & Mariah MacCarthy

Directed by Leta Tremblay

Featuring Amy Sheehan and Hannah Fairchild with the band The LoveHowl

Joan of Arc, whose heart could not be burned no matter how many times the English tried, who died for the sin of wearing men's clothing, who led an army despite being an illiterate farmgirl, whose temper ran short and faith ran deep, who heard voices, who would drive you away at swordpoint if she didn't want you there, appears to a teenager in a trailer park named Jo one morning. Jo has been given a mission from God. There's a woman; her name is Daphne Charles; and she must become President of the United States. You Cannot Destroy Me is a country/hard-rock musical epic, a call to arms against climate change, and a passing of the torch across history from one gender-rebel heroine to another.

"Town Stages is a space that is committed to supporting works that deconolize representation on our stages and screens," said Robin Sokoloff, Executive Director of Town Stages. "We couldn't be more proud to be this year's platform for Caps Lock Theatre's Pussyfest. Melissa Lusk, Mariah MacCarthy, and Leta Tremblay are in the creative trenches doing the important work that transforms how we look at the world, as they show us how we can build and experience a more humanistic and equitable world for all."