In the Tall Grass by
In The Tall Grass is a verbatim play written in response to the murder of Shade Schuler, a 22 year old transgender woman whose body was found dumped in a field in the medical district of Dallas in July 2015.
Shade’s story is set against the backdrop of wider atrocities across the US, which saw at least 23 trans or gender-nonconforming people murdered in 2015 alone – more than the total number of...
Shade’s story is set against the backdrop of wider atrocities across the US, which saw at least 23 trans or gender-nonconforming people murdered in 2015 alone – more than the total number of...
In The Tall Grass is a verbatim play written in response to the murder of Shade Schuler, a 22 year old transgender woman whose body was found dumped in a field in the medical district of Dallas in July 2015.
Shade’s story is set against the backdrop of wider atrocities across the US, which saw at least 23 trans or gender-nonconforming people murdered in 2015 alone – more than the total number of trans murders than in any other year that advocates had recorded. Tragically, this number looks set to surpass itself each year.
In the wake of Shade’s murder, the play focuses on a community who are left asking ‘why’, and fearing who could be next. Told through first-hand testimonies of transgender women of color in Dallas, In The Tall Grass explores the circumstances, which force many of them to exist in the underworld – ignored by society, cut off from support and legal systems; and condemned for what is ironically known as 'survival sex work'.
Shade’s story is set against the backdrop of wider atrocities across the US, which saw at least 23 trans or gender-nonconforming people murdered in 2015 alone – more than the total number of trans murders than in any other year that advocates had recorded. Tragically, this number looks set to surpass itself each year.
In the wake of Shade’s murder, the play focuses on a community who are left asking ‘why’, and fearing who could be next. Told through first-hand testimonies of transgender women of color in Dallas, In The Tall Grass explores the circumstances, which force many of them to exist in the underworld – ignored by society, cut off from support and legal systems; and condemned for what is ironically known as 'survival sex work'.