my heart is hitchhiking down peachtree street

Fergus Evans: Fergus Evans is a yarn-spinnin', boy-kissin' spoken word performance artist. He was artist-in-residence for Contact's At Home project and was selected for Apples and Snakes' incubate program for emerging spoken word artists. His work focuses on the restaging of spoken word using video, soundscaping and sculpture.

You can taste the tang of bourbon on your lips and experience the sweet stickiness of peach juice on your chin as you get glimpses of homecoming queens and mean girls, misdirected kisses and drag artists, pipe bombs and hurricanes. The show is suffused with both pain and nostalgia, but also something tougher and more resilient. And it creates a world so artfully that you leave the theatre swearing you've travelled to Georgia and back.' Guardian