Once the queen of B-movies, a washed-up Hollywood diva is diagnosed with Gay Diabetes and decides to direct one last film as her body crumbles and career collapses.
Billy White is Coot.The queen of cinematic bad taste.
A drag diva with a career built on cheap horror, tasteless musicals and catastrophic decisions, Coot has insulted actors, terrified producers and somehow survived it all. But nothing prepares her for a diagnosis of gay diabetes.
Now the studio has given her one final chance.Her next picture?Dorothy Does Oz.As her body begins to fail, Coot must finish the filthiest Wizard of Oz sequel never made and confront the one role she has spent her entire life avoiding: survival.Foul-Mouthed Coot, Permanent as Party Balloons is a savage one woman drag comedy about diabetes burnout, queer survival, ego and refusing to leave the stage quietly. A filthy, fast and unexpectedly heartfelt collision of old Hollywood glamour, B movie sleaze and theatrical chaos.