Media commentator and blogger Russell Brown is curating an edition of Late at the Museum with the the theme "Life in the Margins: Otherness in New Zealand", which will include what's set to be a memorable and intimate performance by drag royals Buckwheat and Tess Tickle. The event at Auckland Museum on Thursday 6 October will start with a panel discussion by gay, disabled comedian Philip Patson, Little Criminals author David Cohen, transwoman Stacey Kerapa Huata and Labour's youth affairs spokeswoman Jacinda Ardern. "After the talk, there will be something you may not ever see again," Brown has written in his blog Hard News, where he announced the event. "Almost my first thought on getting this gig was that I wanted drag queens. There is something deeply real in the unabashed artifice of a drag show; and so much hidden behind the curtain of the show itself. Drag is a culture, and it's one that most New Zealanders never see." Brown explains he has commissioned Buckwheat and Tess Tickle to create and present This is Where We Came From, a performance about their own drag "house" and its secret history. "It will be fabulous and serious," he writes. "I am indebted to Julian Cook for his help in this very special work." You can read more about the event here and buy tickets here
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First published: Friday, 16th September 2011 - 8:11pm