All Frocked Up

 

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Chris Besenski playing Greta, a transvestite performer, in a 1995 student production of Martin Sherman's Bent at the U of S Greystone Theatre.

University of Saskatchewan Archives — M.L. Wittlin Fonds MG245

Bent explores the persecution of homosexuals in Nazi Germany. In a twist Greta, the only character in drag, is a heterosexual man who betrays the gay protagonists to save himself.