Antonio!

What if The Bard wasn’t just reusing a character name, but was instead inspired by one hopelessly romantic pirate looking for love in all the wrong places? Antonio! is a queer pirate punk musical that reframes—and reclaims!—iconic characters from Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, Much Ado About Nothing and The Merchant of Venice. With his band The Fools, Antonio expresses the joys, frustrations and rebellions of queer love in a world that might not have been quite ready for it. See this world premier of a new musical from Butch Mermaid Productions before the crew sails the high seas to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Created and performed by an international team of trans and gender diverse artists from New York, Aotearoa New Zealand and Scotland.