A performance by Martin Julien
Produced by Toronto’s Buddies in Bad Times Theatre (December 10-18 2022)
The trailer for Martin Julien's 2022 production, "The Man That Got Away" (produced by Buddies in Bad Times Theatre).
How do we reinhabit the stories that make us who we are? How do those who’ve left us continue to inhabit us? In an intimate performance weaving together music, confessionals, and personal archives, Martin Julien unmaps, through space and time, his queer upbringing as the child of a lesbian mother and gay father in mid-20th-century Toronto.
Exploding the cabaret form, The Man That Got Away grapples with the layers of our performed identities and the plurality of ways that we ‘come out.’ Family secrets, shared histories, and the musical theatre canon come together in this gesture towards a space of liberation, memory, desire, and truth.
An interview with Martin Julien and Ben Page about the creation of the project (Buddies in Bad Times).
