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.
Lead Artist, director and performer: Amelia Lander-Cavallo
Co-director: Adae Bajomo
Producer and Production Design: Al Lander-Cavallo
Access Support: Adae Bajomo and Dot Alma
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
Three people on a black stage with black curtains. Amelia, a slim white person sits knitting bright pink sleeves of a jumper. Adae, a black person wearing clear framed glasses, sits on the floor reading from a notebook. Behind stands Charmaine, a tall mixed race woman with a black afro. She smiles and she holds one fist out as if she is saying “yesssssss!”
Y’all Are Lucky I’m Still Here (R&D)
The initial idea for Y’all Are Lucky I’m Still here was to create a devised performance that explores what it means to be mid life and mid career as queer disabled artists. With this in mind, we got a team of LGBTQ+ disabled creatives together with cosy seating, a bunch of snacks, no specific goals, many questions and prompts, and an open mind. What we found was a wonderfully relaxed atmosphere where we came up with so many things! Unexpectedly, one of the main focuses became fibre arts. What started as a lovely way for some of us to stim during discussions or lunch breaks became a collective special interest that unearthed concepts of connection, weaving one's own identity within a chosen community and holding onto traditions outside of capitalism or productivity.
We explored integrated audio description (obvs), movement and storytelling through mytho-biography - which we took to mean using elements of one’s life (an object, memory, tradition, special interest, etc) as a catalyst to build new stories and to show connections between performers and audience.
Lead Artist: Amelia Lander-Cavallo
Director: Shivaangee Agrawal
Collaborative artist: Charmaine Wombwell
Creative access and AD: Adae Bajomo and Dot Alma
Producer and production design: Al Lander-Cavallo
Producer: Cynthia Chikka Franklin
Access dramaturg: Maria Oshodi
R&D, Southstreet Arts, Reading University, 2025
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!
Director and performer: Amelia Lander-Cavallo
Performers: Al Lander-Cavallo and Joel Le Clercq
Producer: Al Lander-Cavallo
Workshop facilitators: Ella The Great, Kumiko Mendl, Jon Davidson, Malik Ibheis
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.
Director: Amelia Lander-Cavallo
Producer and production design: Al Lander-Cavallo
Host: Tito Bone
Cast: Rotating cast including Ebony Rose Dark and Venetia Blind.
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.
Director: Amelia Lander-Cavallo
Producer: Al Lander-Cavallo
Drag-maturgs (dramaturgs): Apple Derrieres, Adam All, Mr. Wesley Dykes
Performers: Tito Bone, Ophelia Bone, Venetia Blind, Ebony Rose Dark, The Entity, Dick O’Dock, Androgeny Erogony
Access support: Bird La Bird, Dot Alma
Stage Manager: Oliver Roxon
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.
