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Title: Memoirs of a Hermaphrodite
Post by: Shana A on March 15, 2010, 11:15:03 AM
Post by: Shana A on March 15, 2010, 11:15:03 AM
Memoirs of a Hermaphrodite
Published Monday 15 March 2010 at 10:45 by Sally Stott
http://www.thestage.co.uk/reviews/review.php/27534/memoirs-of-a-hermaphrodite (http://www.thestage.co.uk/reviews/review.php/27534/memoirs-of-a-hermaphrodite)
There is a certain voyeuristic appeal about going to see a show about a person trapped between two genders, something that writer/ performer Sarah Leaver embraces with a playful sense of self-knowing throughout, from the opening freeze-frames of her disjointed semi-clad body to the positioning of the story as a Victorian 'freak show' - a salacious vaudeville in which everything is to be looked at and everyone is being judged for their prying glances and accompanying speculations.
Inspired by the real-life memoirs of Adelaide Herculine Barbin, a hermaphrodite living in France in the 1800s, Leaver's show charts Adelaide's life and the turmoil that accompanies 'existing twice and then not at all.'
Published Monday 15 March 2010 at 10:45 by Sally Stott
http://www.thestage.co.uk/reviews/review.php/27534/memoirs-of-a-hermaphrodite (http://www.thestage.co.uk/reviews/review.php/27534/memoirs-of-a-hermaphrodite)
There is a certain voyeuristic appeal about going to see a show about a person trapped between two genders, something that writer/ performer Sarah Leaver embraces with a playful sense of self-knowing throughout, from the opening freeze-frames of her disjointed semi-clad body to the positioning of the story as a Victorian 'freak show' - a salacious vaudeville in which everything is to be looked at and everyone is being judged for their prying glances and accompanying speculations.
Inspired by the real-life memoirs of Adelaide Herculine Barbin, a hermaphrodite living in France in the 1800s, Leaver's show charts Adelaide's life and the turmoil that accompanies 'existing twice and then not at all.'