Your Sexts are Shit: Older Better Letters
In June 2016, immediately after the Brexit vote Rachel Mars was depressed and in upstate New York. In order to cheer her up, a friend read her some of Joyce's sex letters to Nora Barnacle. They were beautiful, filthy, honest and surprising.
You had an arse full of farts that night, darling, and I fucked them out of you, big fat fellows, long windy ones, quick little merry cracks and a lot of tiny little naughty farties ending in a long gush from your hole.
James Joyce, letter to Nora Barnacle, 1908
After that she went in search of other fantastic sex and love letters, and with the help of the internet, friends and two sexologists unearthed letters dating back centuries, and turned them into a performance night.
In October 2017 Rachel brings a special Queer edition of Your Sexts Are Shit: Older Better Letters to Porto.
The show features letters from Joyce, Frida Kahlo, some gay monks. Georgia O'Keeffe, Mozart, Charles Bukowski, Radclyffe Hall, Eleanor Roosevelt and others, plus sexts sent to her by anonymous donation.