Boyself/Girlself by Jack Seamus Conley
16 Nov. 2021
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Jack Conley's gentle play falls into the genre of older-self meeting younger-self, but it does so from the unusual perspective of a girl about to start her transition to a boy five years older. The author tells us "the focus of this play should not be action or plot," but as with all good plays, something *happens* in this one - revelation, understanding, hope for the future. A lovely play that creates sympathy and understanding for what it's like to feel gender dysphoria, and which effectively uses images of bruises, tattoos, lipstick, and more to deepen the experience, ”