PRIDE MONTH PARTY: LA CAGE AUX FOLLES WITH PLAYWRIGHT JEREMY O. HARRIS

<span id="docs-internal-guid-1976268c-7fff-c762-15cb-4679c49c9a88"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Thirty years ago, </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Birdcage</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> made history as a commercial gay comedy made by the Hollywood studio system. But the success of that movie stands on the shoulders of its precedent, the 1978 French-language adaptation of the original stage play. A delirious farce set against the flamboyant backdrop of the St. Tropez drag club, </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">La Cages Au Folles </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">stars Ugo Tognazzi as Renato Baldi, the proprietor of the club, who agrees to hide his progressive lifestyle to placate his son from a previous relationship when he shows up with his conservative in-laws in tow.&nbsp;</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tony-nominated playwright Jeremy O. Harris (</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Slave Play</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">) joins the Playhouse in person to present the film and discuss its legacy. The conversation will be followed by an afterparty across the street at Shippy’s.</span></p><div><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></span></div></span>ComedyPT1H32MR2026-06-10
Ugo Tognazzi
Michel Serrault
Claire Maurier
Édouard Molinaro
Marcello Danon
PRIDE MONTH PARTY: LA CAGE AUX FOLLES WITH PLAYWRIGHT JEREMY O. HARRIS"PRIDE MONTH PARTY: LA CAGE AUX FOLLES WITH PLAYWRIGHT JEREMY O. HARRIS"

Showtimes

June 10, 7:00 pm

Southampton Playhouse