Miz Cracker plays The Grinch’s Cindy Lou Who in her new Christmas show, Who’s Holiday.
Cracker’s one-woman show, told entirely in Dr. Seuss rhyme, follows the “hard-drinking, pill popping” Cindy Lou through the hard, ugly reality of adult life.
Miz Cracker told PinkNews,
To say that Christmas is about traditional values or values of any kind anymore is pretty ridiculous. Christ is nowhere featured in this. In America, if you look at the way people knock down the doors of shopping centers, I think you can tell that we have separated Christmas from Christ.
I think any opportunity that we have to kick down traditional family values is welcomed. The way of thinking about family is old and tired and we need to reinvent it.
I think that Who’s Holiday! does that. It makes fun of family and I think it talks about chosen family and talks about the friends that really matter and what it means to have them in your life. So yeah, fuck family.”
Less than two years after Trump got the boot, the LGBTQ community is preparing for his potential comeback in 2024.
We have so many problems in the US politically – it’s nice to take a break to other people’s problems I’m not faced with political strife of my own every day. It’s other people’s political strife.
I’m already worried right now. I think [it] would be terrifying. Not just because he would be president, which is one thing, but because it would show that there is support for hatred and phobia in our country.“
This year was the worst on record for anti-LGBTQ+ legislation in the US, with hundreds of state bills proposed that would decimate trans healthcare and prevent trans youth from playing school sports.
What matters is not figuring out why it happened, but making sure that it gets crushed…because we’re talking about the lives of trans youth being crushed or not acknowledged by some of this legislation.
We’re talking about, on the smallest level and on the national level, real persecution. So it doesn’t matter where it came from, it just has to be stopped.
We can make it irrelevant that he’s running if we show up and vote. We have in the past, I know we can do it again.”
Miz Cracker has long been one of Drag Race’s most politically engaged queens. She first got into drag with Bob The Drag Queen protesting for marriage equality in New York City.
Politics aside, giving people a moment of “laughter and togetherness” is her main goal for the show.
Despite it being raunchy and despite it being ungodly, there is still a message there, that family and friends are the most important things that you can have on the holidays.”
Who’s Holiday! is at London’s Southwark Playhouse from December 7 to January 7, 2023.
(Photo, Joshua Going; via PinkNews)
