![]() ![]() “We've got quite comfortable with theatre watching marginalised and oppressed people go on stage and say ‘here is my story here is my pain, now feel empathy.'” They didn't want to make a show that isolated them in their trauma while allowing cis audiences to ignore the role they play in creating it. “For me, I didn't want to create a show about my identity that stopped and started with me,” says Alabanza, speaking across the phone from Berlin. In preparation for Burgerz' Edinburgh run at the Traverse Theatre, Alabanza speaks about the importance of creating a trans theatrical canon, the stage as a safe(r) space to explore identity and the power of theatre to intervene in public opinion. In this way, it creates an avenue to examine the role of cis complacency and lack of empathy towards trans individuals in allowing this violence - in both its physical and systemic forms - to continue unchecked. However, it also flips the script to turn the attention to the audience's own potential complicity in this phenomenon. Fresh off a stint showing in Berlin after debuting in London in 2018, it's a vital piece of theatre interrogating the issue of rising transphobic abuse from Alabanza's own experience. ![]()
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