The Stupid Hug
A tragicomedy about men, performed by women.

Three friends meet on a Friday night before a school reunion. Drinks, jokes, memories. But a fourth friend—absent for years—reappears in their words, in their silences, in a memory they can’t quite name. Something happened. Something that didn’t fit the script of what a man is supposed to be.

Set in a suspended time and space, "The Stupid Hug" explores the emotional paralysis of male friendship, the tenderness that can’t be shown, the desire that can’t be spoken, and the violence that fills the void. Through repetition, absurdity, and humour, the play unveils how masculinity becomes a factory—mechanical, fragile, incomplete.

What shifts when male bodies are portrayed by feminized ones?
Does the violence hit differently?
Does the tenderness reach us deeper?

The Stupid Hug doesn’t offer answers. It opens cracks.