He trained with the same French nasty asshole that I also trained with, Philippe Gaulier. "Sacha Baron Cohen's characters are all bouffons. ![]() The character came out of Miller wanting to "bind together the kind of ethos of 'bouffon performance'," which he described as "a type of nasty clown that makes such an existence out of pointing out our hypocrisies and the evil and the monstrous that we all share." "It feels like so much distance has been travelled," he says. "But it also feels like such a compact little blip, just how fast everything moves." Miller has been performing as Pearle for five years now - something he finds "horrifying" to say out loud. Pearle Harbour (right) performs with Steven Conway in Agit-Pop. It's just us at the mic singing, screaming, crying. So it feels really wonderfully indulgent for myself and Stephen Conway because we just have such a blast doing the show every time. ![]() "We've built a bunch of short acts that are usually based around that same kind of like, really acidic, sociopolitical tirade tied with some kind of a cover or new arrangement of like an old pop song," Miller says of Pearle. "And Agit-Pop! is sort of this ever changing and growing collection of those short acts. Accompanied by musical director Steven Conway, Agit-Pop! will find Pearle offering audiences (among other things) new arrangements of old classics and little-known gems by David Bowie, Judy Garland, Tom Waits and more. Pearle Harbour - the drag persona of Justin Miller - is about to have her biggest year yet with Pearl Harbour's Agit-Pop!, a "jukebox spectacular of song, storytelling and sociopolitical tirades" developed over a half-decade of live performance.Ī two-time Dora Award nominee and the self-proclaimed "nation's premier (read: only) drag tragicomedienne," Pearle's latest show will debut at Toronto's Next Stage Theatre Festival before heading west to the PuSh International Performing Arts Festival in Vancouver, the Yukon Arts Centre in Whitehorse and the OUTstages Queer Theatre Festival in Victoria. There's a Canadian drag performer who is about to serve something on stages across the country that you'll likely be hard-pressed to find anywhere else. ![]() It won the 2019 Digital Publishing Award for best digital column in Canada. Queeries is a weekly column by CBC Arts producer Peter Knegt that queries LGBTQ art, culture and/or identity through a personal lens.
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