A summer night's round of queer tales accompanied by delicate, playful Renaissance music takes us to Florence. Together with their protagonist, the directing duo Vöcks de Schwindt imagines the intimate relationships that men cultivated there in great numbers and diversity around 500 years ago. It was said of them that they joyfully florenced.
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In imagined stories and songs accompanied by lute music, we immerse ourselves in a seductive world of l'amore masculino, friends with benefits and early modern daddies and twinks. While the verb to florence historically referred primarily to gay sex, the evening explores the emotional connections behind it with speculative imagination. Immersed in stories of connection and friendship, a picture emerges of what everyday life of the florencers might have looked like.
In the tradition of the longing gaze toward Italy as a symbolic place of refuge, liberation, and self-discovery, Vöcks de Schwindt brings the past into our present with this musical-theatrical storytelling, searching for moments of beauty, closeness, and vulnerability in a queer historiography.
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November 2025
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