Holiday Cheer, Spiked or Straight
How do you like your celebration? Taylor Mac gives it to you dazzling and arch, while “Meet Me in St. Louis” is a nostalgic comfort.
Taylor Mac, costumed by Machine Dazzle with makeup by Anastasia Durasova, in “Holiday Sauce … Pandemic!”Credit.via Pomegranate Arts
Dec. 15, 2020
Taylor Mac’s autumn-harvest headdress is such an elaborate landscape of apples and gourds that the gleaming green talons reaching out of it come across as a subtle touch.
Beneath it, the makeup is mesmerizing: an almost trompe l’oeil tribute to the 16th-century painter Giuseppe Arcimboldo, who depicted people with vegetables where facial features would otherwise be.
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Tony Bravo December 10, 2020Updated: December 11, 2020, 4:18 pm
Performance artist Taylor Mac Photo: Little Fang
For some people, holiday specials mean Perry Como or Rosemary Clooney. In the experimental theater world, December is the season of Taylor Mac.
This year the MacArthur awardee, playwright and performer of “A 24-Decade History of Popular Music” takes the annual “Taylor Mac’s Holiday Sauce” and gives it a pandemic twist, streaming Saturday, Dec. 12. “Holiday Sauce,” which came to the Curran in 2018, is Mac’s postmodern, ultra-queer musical take on the holiday specials and pageants you grew up with but spiked with doses of absurdity, wit and glamour. The show is also being released as a holiday album.