I Am Going To Build A Chapel In The Woods For Every Dead Queer That History Has Forgotten And I Need Your Help

I am sorry to make another show about dead queers. But this show is about how we remember them, and how we keep on living.
Amiot has a dead gay grandad. Or at least, he thinks he does. They definitely know he had a fear of large fleshy leaves, but the queer part is more complicated. Now theyre figuring out how to archive a history they barely even have, and how we can build a lineage of queer people that history has forgotten.

I am Going to Build a Chapel in the Woods is about dead gay grandads, memorials made of twigs, and how we as the queer community mourn and remember. It is a call to action to engage in queer remembrance as a radical act - one that we can play an active role in building and rebuilding.

Amiot is a transmasc performer and theatre-maker. They performed their debut show ANTICHRIST at Femfest last year as one of their selected early career artists. I Am Going To Build A Chapel In The Woods has been developed through Duckies Homosexual Summer School, Wild Rumpus, and The Wellcome Collections You Are Here Writing Group.

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