CALL ME BY ANY OTHER NAME...

JUST AS SWEET

by Nigel Semaj 

directed by Jane Skapek 

Dates: September 19th - 21 and August 25, 27 & 28, 2025 

Location: The Voxel 

Running time: Approx 2 hours with one 10-minute intermission.

CALL ME BY ANY OTHER NAME… JUST AS SWEET is a queer reinterpretation of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, set in the pulsing heart of Club Verona, ruled by our illustrious drag queen and host, Mutha Laurence. Inspired by the electric energy of the ballroom scene, drag culture, and underground club life, this immersive production plunges into the complexities of queer love, grief, pleasure, and mortality. CALL ME boldly questions the very purpose of love itself. What unfolds is a fierce, poetic, and unapologetically raw night of dance, intimacy, and theatrical rebellion—exploring the edges of queer utopia while asking: what does it truly mean to love—and to lose?

Part party. Part drag show. Part nightclub. Part play.

Filled with love, sex, drugs, and grief, we invite you to spend a night of debauchery, tenderness, and unapologetic queerness at Club Verona.

Content Transparency: This production is unapologetically queer and celebrates a wide range of queer freedoms and expressions. It includes:

  • Sexual innuendos, explicit language, and sexual dialogue

  • Moments of intimacy, sensual and sexual dancing

  • Bold, joyful, and defiant expressions of queerness

  • Depictions of death and discussions of grief

  • Emotionally intense and potentially distressing moments, all grounded in a spirit of queer resilience and persistence

This production also features:

  • Strobing lights

  • Haze and theatrical smoke

  • Loud music and dramatic effects