Peter Canavese
2011-10-14 04:10:00 UTC
Perhaps the most transgressive aspect of Stephan Elliott's Australian drag queen dramedy The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert is just how conventional its narrative turns out to be. The fish-out-of-water road-trip comedy might well be called boilerplate if its trio of men weren't constantly done up in wigs, heels, feathers, and other colorful accoutrements rarely seen outside of Rio during Carnival. It's this very dichotomy that Priscilla is about: like La Cage Aux Folles and its remake The Birdcage, it's a story mostly about pleas for acceptance, partly between loving individuals but largely between the individual and his society.
Sydney
"Tick" Belrose (Hugo Weaving)
Mitzy Del Bra
a four-week gig at a hotel/casino in Alice Springs, way out in the middle of the outback.
Bernadette (Terrence Stamp) transsexual whose husband has just died
Adam "Felicia Jollygoodfellow" Whitely (Guy Pearce)
"I'll join this conversation on the proviso that we stop bitching about people, talking about wigs, dresses, bust sizes, penises, drugs, night clubs, and bloody ABBA!"
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