Ms. Nookie Galore Performs Sarap

Food is central to cultural sharing, and cooking is an embodied performance of gathering in the kitchen to tell the stories that make us who we are. Join horror drag queen Ms. Nookie Galore as she takes up this act of cultural nourishment by animating the scary stories of her childhood for the audience. Sarap is a reworking and a reanimation of the origin story of the Filipino vampire, the Manananggal, within the context of the migrant worker. The performance explores who Ms. Nookie Galore is through the formats of the cooking show, horror storytelling, and drag entertainment.