our shows
Tito Bone, a slim white drag king with a brown and grey mullet and a teal glitter beard is on a black stage lit with teal lights. They are wearing a sparkly silver suit, singing into a mic and holding their rainbow mobility cane out towards the audience.
“Tito’s use of musical talent and comic timing to slice through the ableist society we live in is glorious!”
An Evening with Tito Bone:
The World is Burning so Please Come to my Drag Show
An Evening with Tito Bone is a 60-minute performance featuring blind non-binary bisexual drag king Tito Bone, who blends glitter-beard glamour, songs, dad-dancing, and enchanting storytelling into a playful experience.
The show invites audiences to ‘smell the world through their nose’ while diving into moments of queer pride, joy, tenderness, laughter, and irresistible ‘ohhhh sexy!’ magic.
Out of the Box festival at Théâtre de l’Usine, Geneva, Switzerland, 2025
Queer Festival 2025 at Theatre Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany, 2025
The Battersea Arts Centre, London, UK (sharing), 2025
Utopia Theatre, Sheffield, UK (sharing), 2025
Junges Schauspielhaus, Bochum, Germany (family friendly), 2024
Queer Festival 2023 at Theatre Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany (early development) 2023
Four clowns mid performance in a large black box theatre. From left to right is Ella the Great, a light skinned black person wearing a red hat, Amelia, a white person wearing pink hat, and Al, a white small fat person wearing a black hat with a large blue feather on the side. Joel’s head pokes out sideways between the group, they’re a white person with a lovely brown beard wearing a black hat.
Unsightly Circus (R&D)
A performance research project as part of Barbican Open Labs, 2023. We spent a week with some incredible clowns, trying our unsightly formula on a new project – this time we wanted to see how clowning and integrated audio description interacted with each other. We spent time learning clowning fundamentals and developing some ideas of what a Quiplash clown show might feel like.
So far what we know is that it’s funny, very chill and confusing in the best ways. We have plans to continue to develop this show further. If you are interested in helping us do so, please get in touch!
Ebony Rose Dark covered from head to toe in a stretchy pink bag is performing on a black stage that is lit with teal and full of moody smoke. Though ebony is mostly featureless in the bag, it is clear that they are standing and raising their arms towards the sky, head tilted back. We can see the contours of their chest and arms as well as a small point where the bag pushes into their chin.
Unsightly Drag and Friends
AKA Unsightly Cabaret
A cabaret with a difference, featuring disabled and neurodivergent performers who exist across the LGBTQ+ spectrum. You will be in for a fun filled evening where our drag kings, queens and things sing, dance and lip-sync their way into your hearts, all while wearing large amounts of glitter.
The show blends drag, comedy, music, dance, integrated audio description and relaxed performance into a joyous, boundary-pushing evening.
Unsightly Drag and Friends, Gessnerallee, Zurich, 2024
Mighty Hoopla, London, UK, 2024
Queering the Crip, Cripping the Queer festival, Sophiensæle, Berlin, 2022
Unsightly Drag
Quiplash’s first project.
Unsightly Drag was a performance research project to uncover the ways integrated audio description and drag can inform and challenge each other.
We put 7 blind and VI queer performers together with prominent drag performers, AD consultants and access workers for a 2 week R&D. We then created and performed a drag/cabaret show with fully integrated audio description at Bloomsbury Festival 2019.
This piece has since been developed into Unsightly Drag And Friends and Unsightly Cabaret and has been toured nationally and internationally. We have egaged with more queer disabled artists to embed audio description in their work and create unique high-quality cabaret shows with a difference.
Unsightly Drag was created in collaboration with Extant, supported by the National Theatre New Works Department and funded by LADA and Arts Council England.
Bloomsbury Fest 2019
R&D at National Theatre New Works Department.
Performed at Chapel Playhouse.
With support from Extant, Arts Council England, LADA and National Theatre New Works Department.
