Look Mummy, I'm Dancing | Vanessa
Written by Bron Batten
Wednesday, 14 October 2009 17:39
http://www.australianstage.com.au/200910142919/reviews/miaf/look-mummy-i-m-dancing-|-vanessa.htmlThere are some subjects about which people have an almost morbid
fascination. It is the hidden, the taboo and the deviances from the
norm that spark the imagination and foster unutterable questions. It
is not often that we get these queries answered and at the premiere of
Vanessa Van Durme's Look Mummy, I'm Dancing the collective thought of
the audience was almost audible. 'Yes, but how does it all work... down
there?'
Look Mummy, I'm Dancing is a one woman monologue chronicling the life
of Belgian transsexual Vanessa Van Durme. Vanessa underwent her gender
reassignment surgery in Morocco in 1975, years before it was more
widely accessible. It is a frank and moving story that demystifies the
subject of transsexualism, without resorting to exploitation.
