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The popular current representation of drag performance is the TV show RuPaul’s Drag Race, which involves glam outfits, put-downs, an all-knowing judge, and a win-or-lose format. That balance is very different to the playful, inclusive world of the Brooklyn drag-burlesque collective Switch n’ Play, founded in 2006 and the subject of this funny, generous doc. Zigzagging across gender lines, as well as distinctions between burlesque, drag, cosplay and the circus, the performances are raunchy and comically disarming: Imagine a multi-breasted night goddess or an old-fashioned milkman… who really knows how to swing his bottles.
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