Will U Marry Me?
Drag stand-up performance
Concept, performer, dramaturgy:
Igor ShugaleevProducer:
Marina DashukVideo artist:
Aleksandra KononchenkoLight, sound, video:
Tomasz JozwinProduction:
marinadashuk.artThe idea for this performance came from a joke often shared among immigrant friends: frustrated by the challenges of legalizing our stay in the EU, we joke that marrying someone would be easier than dealing with endless immigration bureaucracy.
The performance is built around one central question: Will you marry me?—asked to audience members with EU citizenship.
Balancing personal and political themes, the performer turns their fate into an open bargaining process while simultaneously exposing a system that forces personal values to become bureaucratic commercial transactions.
Through personal experience and social critique, the project try to explores queer migration, legal restrictions, highlighting the harsh, absurd, and often tragic realities of the immigration process.
Moreover, this project is also an attempt at reflecting on love, sex, relationships, Grindr, homonormativity, deprivations, but also the privileges of being queer.
The performance was created as part of the project by the association Quarteera e.V. - Queer Culture in Exile, December 2025 in Berlin.
The performance is built around one central question: Will you marry me?—asked to audience members with EU citizenship.
Balancing personal and political themes, the performer turns their fate into an open bargaining process while simultaneously exposing a system that forces personal values to become bureaucratic commercial transactions.
Through personal experience and social critique, the project try to explores queer migration, legal restrictions, highlighting the harsh, absurd, and often tragic realities of the immigration process.
Moreover, this project is also an attempt at reflecting on love, sex, relationships, Grindr, homonormativity, deprivations, but also the privileges of being queer.
The performance was created as part of the project by the association Quarteera e.V. - Queer Culture in Exile, December 2025 in Berlin.