CALL ME BY ANY OTHER NAME… JUST AS SWEET is a queer reinterpretation of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, set in the pulsing heart of Club Verona, ruled by our illustrious drag queen and host, Mutha Laurence.
Inspired by the electric energy of the ballroom scene, drag culture, and underground club life, this immersive production plunges into the complexities of queer love, grief, pleasure, and mortality. CALL ME boldly questions the very purpose of love itself. What unfolds is a fierce, poetic, and unapologetically raw night of dance, intimacy, and theatrical rebellion—exploring the edges of queer utopia while asking: what does it truly mean to love—and to lose?
Part party. Part drag show. Part nightclub. Part play.
Filled with love, sex, drugs, and grief, we invite you to spend a night of debauchery, tenderness, and unapologetic queerness at Club Verona.
Photography and videography is allowed and encouraged throughout PRESHOW and ACT 1. We ask that if you do post, you use the following hashtags: #justassweet #callme #voxel.
Running time: Approx 2 hours with one 10 minute intermission.
Content Transparency: This production is unapologetically queer and celebrates a wide range of queer freedoms and expressions. It includes:
This production also features:
We encourage audience members to care for themselves and one another as needed throughout the performance.
A Note on Ticket Prices: All ticket sales will go back into the pockets of our production team and our performers.
NIGEL SEMAJ (they/them) is a Baltimore-based director, movement director, and educator originally from Washington, D.C., whose work lives at the intersection of theatre, dance, pedagogy, and social transformation.