“A remarkable whirlwind of a show…
conceptually audacious, bracingly original”
— The Boston Globe
This project is supported in part by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency.
A scathing, hilarious satire on the monetization of identity politics which spares no one.
Usually disabled people want to do the right thing. But what if they don’t?
What if they were out to make as much money as possible from the guilt of non-disabled, anxious people (like you)?
Hot off the back of their smash-hit Edinburgh Fringe Festival and Soho Theatre NY runs, multi award-winning, disability-led theatre company FlawBored presents a scathing satire on the monetization of identity politics which spares no one and literally has audiences catching their breath between fits of laughter.
Info
Venue
Jackie Liebergott Black Box Theatre, Emerson Paramount Center
559 Washington St, Boston, MA 02111
Dates
Apr 02, 2025 - Apr 13, 2025
Special Events
- First Toast hosted by Ronee Penoi following the WED, APR 02 Performance.
- Post-show talkback following THU, APR 03 Performance.
- Post-show talkback following FRI, APR 11 Performance.
Details
Note: Due to limited seating, we are unable to offer Group Discounts for It’s A Motherf**king Pleasure.
Details
60 minutes
Ages 16+
Content warning: Strong Language, Ableism, Graphic Spoken Descriptions of Self Harm.
Access
All shows have integrated audio description
All shows have integrated captioning
Tickets
At this time, some performances of this show may appear as SOLD OUT, however, we recommend that you continue checking back as tickets may be in flux and seating may become available at a later time.
Artists
Company
Flawbored
There shows all feature integrated, creative access through out and seek to create an environment where all audiences, regardless of impairments and disabilities are able to access the same show.
A FlawBored show is cheeky, chaotic and most importantly is not disability ‘trauma-porn’ or ‘pity-porn.’
Samuel Brewer
Sam is an access consultant, facilitator, actor & theatre maker who graduated from BA Acting CDT at Central in 2020. Since graduating he has heavily involved himself in disability related activism and was the director of The Diversity School Initiative. He is also an ambassador for the Disability Artist Network Collective. He runs workshops on access tools in the rehearsal room – skill building for practitioners on making their methodologies more accessible. These workshops are designed to be active, engaging and cheeky. Self describing the way he works as “take the works seriously, don’t take yourself seriously.”
Aarian Mehrabani
Aarian trained on the BA Acting (Collaborative and devised theatre) course at the Royal Central school of speech and drama, graduating in 2020. Before moving to London in 2017 he worked closely with The Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester, appearing in shows such as Nothing (2016/2017), directed by Bryony Shanahan and BRINK, directed by Matthew Xia.
He has also worked in musical theatre with Leo&Hyde playing Aziz in their UK tour of ‘GUY: A new musical’ and 2021 R&D, alongside working with them to integrate music tech and live looping into their new musical “Galileo”.
Chloe Palmer
Gallery
Photo Credit: Paul Fuller
Photo Credit: Alex Brenner
Photo Credit: Alex Brenner
Photo Credit: Alex Brenner
“FUNNY AND THOUGHT-PROVOKING
…the FlawBored trio — who bravely say what others might not —
aspires to push us to learn and to do better, even if we’re afraid.”
— WBUR
“I felt unhindered joy watching the cast members…toss disability anxiety back into the faces
of theoretical ableds whose anal accessibility pedantry makes our lives more work than it already is.
My friends, it truly was a motherfucking pleasure”
— New England Theater Geek
“A remarkable whirlwind of a show…
conceptually audacious, bracingly original “
— The Boston Globe
“It is funny. It is smart. It is a mirror to our faces. It is a highlighter to the handbooks.
It is every meme that you double tapped and hearted.
It is that feed you keep picking reels from to send to the group chat.
It Is a Motherfucking Pleasure tears down walls.”
— City Living Boston
★★★★
“Their pin-sharp show is overflowing with dark humour and righteous anger, but there’s no finger-waving. The perfect ally doesn’t exist – we’re all failing terribly, but acknowledging that is half the battle.”
— Fest Magazine
★★★★
“A tsunami of satire”
— The Stage
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