Share This statement is hugely necessary, Reece Lyons, a trans actor said. Trans people are a hugely marginalised community. We re facing a lot . of negative media and press attention. If a role is a trans-specific role, then the actor who takes on that role needs to have the lived experience to be able to portray the nuance of that experience, she said.
The view that only LGBT+ actors should play LGBT+ characters has been criticised by some in the industry who say that roles should be available to the best actor for the part.
The Oxford Playhouse (pictured) was one of the theatres to commit to actively seek casting opportunities of any gender for trans actors
By Lowie Trevena, Monday Feb 8, 2021
Championing women and non-binary writers, For Books’ Sake hosts events, workshops and retreats across the UK.
For LGBTQ+ History Month 2021 the people behind the project are launching the Queer Heartbreakers Ball (QHB) to help bring LGBTQ+ people together at a time when physical events can’t happen.
A celebration of spoken word, the event on Saturday, February 13 will be hosted by two writers from Bristol and will bring togetherness words and queerness.
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Travis and their mum, Desiree, on set for the Pantene campaign. (Pantene)
Travis Alabanza, the writer, performer and theatre-maker extraordinaire, agreed to kick off their slippers recently to do something a bit different: a modelling shoot with their mum, Desiree.
“I was gagged, because I’ve been wanting an excuse to get my mum dressed up and glammed up. It was a no-brainer for me,” they say.
But when Travis proposed the shoot – a hair campaign with Pantene – to their mum, she said no.
“Because she was like, ‘I don’t wanna do my own hair! ” Travis laughs. “I told her, ‘Mum, it’s Pantene, they will bring in hair people!’ So then she was like, ‘Well, what about make-up, I’d have to get new make-up! ”
Travis Alabanza’s new play,
Overflow, takes place in a bathroom: white tiled walls and floor, purple toilet and sink, mirror, dripping pipes.
In the bathroom, a young woman, Rosie – played by Reece Lyons – begins a monologue about pre-emptive p sing. It gradually becomes clear that Rosie has locked herself in the bathroom, and is waiting for it to be safe before venturing out.
The staging is deliberate, of course. Women’s bathrooms have become the focal point (along with domestic abuse refuges, prisons, and women’s sports) of transphobic campaigners, who claim that bringing Britain’s gender-recognition law in line with more progressive countries poses a direct threat to women’s safety.
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Overflow, Bush Theatre review – fear, fury and fun
New monologue is a shout out for trans and non-gender-conforming rights
by Aleks SierzSaturday, 12 December 2020
Toilet sanctuary: Reece Lyons in ‘Overflow’.Sharron Wallace
Travis Alabanza is black, trans, queer and proud. And they’ve got a lot to be proud about. In 2016, they were the youngest recipient of the artist in residence post on the Tate workshop programme, and two years later starred in Chris Goode’s wildly overblown adaptation of Derek Jarman’s