About this event
Patient for trans people is often an adjective and not a noun, the endurance of suffering without receiving treatment.
Having researched the lived experiences of trans people across the UK through interviews, an all-trans creative team devises theatre to examine trans access to healthcare during the pandemic and what trans concepts of adulthood and puberty can look like.
What does a period of 5 years really mean to an individual’s life, and how long does the march of societal progress really take?
This is a work-in-progress showcase of performance material (around 45 minutes) that has been devised by the team, with an in-depth discussion session and Q&A after.
The aim of this event is to gather feedback from the trans and gender-diverse community on the show’s relevance and presentation, as well as facilitate conversations on themes covered and the creation process. This will help the team develop the show in close connection with the trans community.
About the organiser
Burning Attic is a newly founded collective devising investigative theatre created from engagement with the lived experiences of people under-represented in theatre, particularly drawing from interviews as research and source material. As a collective mainly comprised of queer, migrant, and Global Majority members, we see theatre and live performance as a means of intervening in reality, where artistic representation has the power to reshape understanding and reconfigure mainstream paradigms. We seek to respond to the spectacle of politics in our multimedia world through interdisciplinary creative processes, defying hierarchies between art and experience.
The all-trans creative team for “Patient is a Verb” comprises of:
- Alex Sheppard (he/him) - Deviser, Performer, Writer
- Andy Bodrenkov (they/them) - Deviser, Designer, Technical Designer, Writer
- Florian Lim (they/them) - Deviser, Producer, Co-Director, Writer
- J Frank (he/they) - Deviser, Co-Director, Performer
- Julian H (he/him) - Deviser, Writer, Researcher
- Lisa Maeda (they/them) - Deviser, Movement Director, Performer, Writer
- Rae Harm (he/him) - Deviser, Writer
You can follow Burning Attic on:
- Instagram @burning.attic
- Twitter @burning_attic
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