TESTO - Wet Mess (UK) - 2026 PuSH Festival
TESTO - Wet Mess (UK)
Mess // Desire // Becoming
TESTO celebrates transitions, testosterone and the edges of drag–a chaotic, heartfelt, and hilariously unhinged deep dive into the mess of becoming. Here, performance and reality blur until what’s made-up somehow feels truer than truth. Expect moustache meals, dykey desires, and a choreography of guttural sexuality that pinches at the dull flesh of everyday life until it sparkles. At once absurd and sincere, TESTO finds the magical in the mundane—the moment when laughter curdles into revelation, and fantasy becomes flesh. It’s awkward, erotic, disarming, and deeply human: a love letter to transition, embodiment, and all our leaking edges.
Artist Wet Mess will also be hosting a workshop, Drag & Devising, on February 10. Learn more and register here.
Feb 7 @ 8PM, Feb 8 @ 2PM | Performance Works
Post-show Talkback: Feb 8
Western Canadian premiere
Presented with Here + Now and the frank theatre co.
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For the queer and 2SLGBTQiA+ communities, PuSh remains a space where bodies, identities, and histories can show up without translation. This year’s programming reaches across continents and lineages, pulling in stories shaped by Black femininity, muxheidad, drag, ecofeminism, Andean memory, and a punk-spirited desire to laugh through the chaos. Each piece invites audiences to sit with complexity, question what performance can hold, and enjoy the surprise of artists who follow their own logic.