Created by Wet Mess (UK)

Co-presented by the frank theatre company and the PuSh Festival

February 7 @ 8pm & 8 @ 2pm, 2026

Performance Works, 1218 Cartwright St, Vancouver

Mess // Desire // Becoming

TESTO celebrates transitions, testosterone and the edges of drag–a chaotic, heartfelt, and hilariously unhinged deep dive into the mess of becoming. Here, performance and reality blur until what’s made-up somehow feels truer than truth. Expect moustache meals, dykey desires, and a choreography of guttural sexuality that pinches at the dull flesh of everyday life until it sparkles. At once absurd and sincere, TESTO finds the magical in the mundane—the moment when laughter curdles into revelation, and fantasy becomes flesh. It’s awkward, erotic, disarming, and deeply human: a love letter to transition, embodiment, and all our leaking edges.

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Accessibility

ASL-interpretation on Feb 7

Audio Description on Feb 7

Contact access@pushfestival.ca to reserve seating with best view of the interpreter, or to reserve headsets for audio description.

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Artistic Team

Creator: Wet Mess

Production: Lucia Fortune-Ely

Metal & Water Collaborator & Production Coordinator: Miz Barber Costume Design: Lambdog1066

Sound Design: Baby

Set Design: Ruta Irbīte

Lighting Design: Joshie Harriette

Dramaturg: Travis Alabanza

Interviewees/Inspirations: Trans Punk Elder, Baby, Angel, Shrek666, Santi Sorrenti Danni Spooner, Sue Maclaine, Svar Simpson, Felix Mufti Ben Vyle, Envy the Queen, Grandma Mess

Thanks to: Danni Spooner, Duffy, Eve Stainton, Ursula Martinez Anthony Simpson-Pike, Jay Miller, Ged, Raze Collective

Poster Design: Josh Quinton

Trailer: Kunstraum Productions, Stefan Venturi

Logo Design: Bora

Audio Description: Adedamola Bajomo

PR: Joy Parkinson

Commissioned by: The Yard Theatre, Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge Junction. Supported by Arts Council England and Here & Now.