Parity Productions' mission is to promote parity by empowering women, trans, and gender-expansive artists in theatre. The stories we identify, develop, and produce are exclusively by women, trans, and gender-expansive playwrights.
Parity presents with excitement this public developmental reading of 2021 Commission Winner M Sloth Levine's vivid and rollicking new play AT HOTEL MACGUFFIN.
Sometime in the middle of the 20th century, a thriller named At Hotel MacGuffin was not released to cinemas. This play, which does exist, is an adaptation of that movie, which does not exist. Miss Olivia Blonde, a mysterious transsexual, checks in to the Hotel MacGuffin. She flees her apartment, plagued by a cockroach infestation, only to find the hotel itself is infested- with spies. Alongside a precocious heirex, dashingly incompetent concierge, and brassy lounge singer, Miss Blonde is swept up into a very queer case of missing persons, missing jewels, and missing the point. Drag, melodrama, noir, and cabaret combine into the feeling that you’ve been here before, you’ll be here again, and you’ll still be looking for that last piece. An instant classic from a time that didn’t happen, you never loved the original and can now enjoy all the nostalgia you don’t remember in an evening you’ll never forget.
M Sloth Levine (they/them) is a transgender theatremaker who writes, directs, and designs in Brooklyn, NY.
Admission is FREE with a Reservation & a 2 Drink Minimum in the Cabaret Theatre.*
*Drinks Must be Purchased IN the Cabaret Theatre to count towards the Minimum.
