Girl: A Gender Expression

"Girl: A Gender Exression" is about a trans experience --- not THE trans experience but a trans experience. More specifically it is about the playwright's trans experience at one moment in her transition. Looking inward and outward, "Girl" is a rage against transphobia, a reflection on artistic, sexual, and gender anxiety, a philosophical auto-theoretical contemplation of what life in the current moment means, a...

"Girl: A Gender Exression" is about a trans experience --- not THE trans experience but a trans experience. More specifically it is about the playwright's trans experience at one moment in her transition. Looking inward and outward, "Girl" is a rage against transphobia, a reflection on artistic, sexual, and gender anxiety, a philosophical auto-theoretical contemplation of what life in the current moment means, a political treatise, and a moment for community. Also hopefully it's funny and not depressing? Too many trans plays are depressing. Mixing dialogue, speeches, dance sequences, and everything in between, Girl is a radical demand for specificity, self-acceptance, and a deconstruction of the traditional ways that plays are created that attempts to shock, enrage, comfort, and challenge its audience.

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Girl: A Gender Expression

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  • Alyssa Haddad-Chin: Girl: A Gender Expression

    Girl: A Gender Expression is urgent, alive, honest, vulnerable, untidy, and a masterpiece. Why every theater company in America isn't programming this play is beyond me (I know why). When it feels like all hope is lost for contemporary plays that exist in this moment with any shred of urgency, this piece expresses truthful rage and it feels almost like relief. But Brain is very clear, it's not the time for relief, it's time to get to work. I hope to have the opportunity to see it staged one day.

    Girl: A Gender Expression is urgent, alive, honest, vulnerable, untidy, and a masterpiece. Why every theater company in America isn't programming this play is beyond me (I know why). When it feels like all hope is lost for contemporary plays that exist in this moment with any shred of urgency, this piece expresses truthful rage and it feels almost like relief. But Brain is very clear, it's not the time for relief, it's time to get to work. I hope to have the opportunity to see it staged one day.

Flexible cast.
All actors should be trans

Development History

  • Type Workshop, Organization Stay True Theatre, Year 2021