CRY/LAUGH
A Town Crier and a Court Jester walk into the future, a King falls, and a Dragon says no to a really strange business pitch.
They’re just teaching you how to tell a joke really, and they promise that after this, absolutely nothing Changes.
CRY/LAUGH was developed as part of my practice-as-research Masters Dissertation, which I submitted in 2024.
They’re just teaching you how to tell a joke really, and they promise that after this, absolutely nothing Changes.
CRY/LAUGH was developed as part of my practice-as-research Masters Dissertation, which I submitted in 2024.
In my research I explored trans futurity. I aimed to build an explicitly ‘trans dramaturgy’ that stood outside of trans testimonial storytelling, using formal methods to explore what transness means as it lives & breathes within a script.
It received a scratch performance at _and friends on 27th October 2024, directed by myself and performed by Emily White and Lois Hunt.
It received a scratch performance at _and friends on 27th October 2024, directed by myself and performed by Emily White and Lois Hunt.
“We hope that you laugh. Crying is an option, but you’ve got nothing to cry about, really, have you...”
"A COMPELLING PLAYTEXT"
"BRILLIANT, CHAOTIC, ABSURD"
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