Some Kind Of Bliss

Pharos, Founded in 2023, Pharos is a queer cultural collective bridging Beijing and London. Drawing from drag queen traditions and pop culture, they create bold, bizarre, and deconstructive works that explore gender, identity, and social structures through theatre, performance, and visual art.​

Some Kind of Bliss

A live, immersive performance rooted in real experiences of Pan-Asain queer diaspora life in modern London.

There is no stage—only shifting territories. You don’t just watch. You’re in it.

A glitter-stained memory. A fake eyelash left on the sink. A gesture that doesn’t clean, but exposes.

This is queer theater non-structured—a field of fragments, of missing things, of things that don’t quite belong.

And that’s where the bliss begins.

*This marks our first collaboration with Ugly Duck — stay tuned for more.

* Pharos welcomes new friends Babyangelanqi, Calvin, and Shuya for a collective unfolding of sweet, shimmering bliss.

Directed by Shuwent

Production: Sherr(Yixue Gao), Peng Yuanqinghe

Performers: Babyangelanqi, Calvin, Human, Mars, Qingqing Liu, Shuya, Shuwent

Costume: Human

Music Live:Greg

Prensented by Pharos

Supported by Ugly Duck

Language: English/Chinese/Vietnamese/Cantonese (Note: This performance contains multilingual dialogue in a nonlinear form)
Duration: 90mins
Venue: Ugly Duck, 49 Tanner St, London SE1 3PL
Date: 6th June 2025

The Great Doll：Two-Year Retrospective of PHAROS
Outside of the performance, we’re also presenting a two-year retrospective exhibition at the ground floor.

From Beijing to London, Pharos celebrates over two years of radical queer performance with a retrospective of our core series. This exhibition revisits five works from the VOL performance series and selected moments from Golden Prostitute, tracing our evolving language of resistance, ritual, and re-imagined identity. Through theatre, drag, and embodied mythologies, we reflect on what it means to gather, to fracture, and to begin again.

* We warmly welcome audiences from neurodiverse, LGBTQ+, cross-cultural, and disabled communities. This is a space for shared presence and care.

Accessibility:
• The venue is partially wheelchair accessible. Please contact us in advance for assistance.
• The performance involves standing and moving through different zones.

Neurodiversity Friendly： This is a sensory-rich environment with fluctuating sound and lighting. Quiet zones are available. Please reach out for a sensory guide or support.