CANCELLED SUMMER SHOWS HAVE BEEN RESCHEDULED FOR NOVEMBER, 2024!
CHECK IT OUT BELOW!
“Iconoclasm - from Greek: eikṓn, ‘figure, icon’ + kláō, ‘to break’”
Welcome to The Roses - a garden, a parlor, a shrine, and a cabaret where the boundaries between past/present/future, ancestors/descendants, the earth and the grave blur and thin. Here - queer ancestors long passed gather, voices freed from generations of a history they did not choose. And, let me tell you, they have songs to sing.
Iconoclasm is a sweeping ritual-cabaret conceived of by songwriter and performer Carlisle Evans Peck. They are out to queer what it means to be a bard. With stories drawn from familial lore and oral histories, Carlisle invites queer ancestors known and unknown onto the stage and into the spotlight - embodying the bachelor farmers, the coal miner lovers, the genderqueer witches, and the ancestral drag mothers of their family lineage. Part ritual, part music-theater, and backed by a live rock orchestra, Iconoclasm traverses balladry, glam rock, and drag, breaking cracks in the veneer of history to release the glittering forgotten lives within.
This Summer, Carlisle and the whole Iconoclasm ensemble is bringing these histories to shimmering life around Minnesota, because now more than ever we need to uplift queer histories. Join us for the dates below!
If you can’t see yourself in the stories you’ve been given, write yourself in - with maximal glitter.
SUMMER/FALL 2024 SHOWS
JULY 12 & 13 - MINNEAPOLIS, MN - The Southern Theater
AUGUST 10 - ORONOCO, MN - Squash Blossom Farm (Buy Tickets)
NEW! NOVEMBER 9 - GRAND MARAIS, MN - The Cook County Community Center Log Cabin
RESCHEDULED! NOVEMBER 15 - GRANITE FALLS, MN - The YES! House
RESCHEDULED! NOVEMBER 16 - MADISON, MN - Madison Mercantile
RESCHEDULED! NOVEMBER 23 - NEW LONDON, MN - Little Theater Auditorium
Carlisle Evans Peck is a fiscal year 2024 recipient of a Creative Individuals grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board. This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.