Come Back

The year is 2050, and, contrary to popular belief, Judy Garland did not die in 1969. At the grand old age of 138, shes re-embraced her real name, Frances Gumm; shes a feminist scholar, working on her Ph.D. at the University of Toronto; and shes writing her thesis on a little-known gay Canadian playwright and drag queen, Dash King, whose rather dismal career ended in a plethora of drugs and promiscuous sex. Obsessed with Kings antiquated notion of gay politics, Francess own meditations on addiction are triggered by his tragic story. Will she go back to drugs, or will she finish her thesis? Framed in an intense communication between Frances and her Ph.D. advisor, Come Back explores a dystopian future and muses on everything from the merits and demerits of post-structuralism to the future of queer theory. Sky Gilberts Judy Garland is angry, profane, funny, and very, very smart.