A Series of Unmentionable Acts @ Greenwood Social Hall

A Series of Unmentionable Acts, created by Joseph Germain Keehn II, is a daring, genre-blurring performance that excavates queer histories once pushed to the margins and brings them vividly—and unapologetically—to life. Part lecture, part theatrical spectacle, part participatory event, the production weaves together scholarship, camp, and collective play to reimagine moments that history tried to silence.

The evening unfolds in a series of layered acts: a pre-show lecture grounding audiences in 19th-century queer thought and resistance; a charged reenactment of Karl Heinrich Ulrichs’s interrupted 1867 address, where the audience is invited to confront the tension between voice and suppression; a reimagined staging of Henry Blake Fuller’s At Saint Judas’s with a heightened sense of theatricality and puppetry; and finally, a gleefully irreverent, audience-driven “womanless wedding,” where spectators determine the outcome in real time.

Performed by a versatile ensemble of actors—each taking on multiple roles across time, gender, and tone—the production…