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Burgers: A Review

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ItsAllGoingToBeFine · 04/11/2018 12:36

Alabanza retweeted these reviews:

BURGERZ by @travisalabanza was an absolutely phenomenal piece of work. So intricately written with such an important message, perfectly woven into a performance that felt both fierce and tender - all whilst deeply rooted in authenticity. Oh and the direction? Sublime 👌🏾

I saw the matinee of #Burgerz by @travisalabanza yesterday and it feels so special to have been there. Part emotional release, part humorous romp, part ritual - retelling and reclaiming of trauma - it was flawlessly managed and controlled. Hats off! Such strength and beauty 💜

Alabanza didn't retweet this one:

threadreaderapp.com/thread/1058834677828644867.html

Which is a shame as it appears to be very accurate (and entertaining) Enjoy Grin

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Gileswithachainsaw · 04/11/2018 14:40

How do you write that with a straight face Grin

BettyDuMonde · 04/11/2018 14:39

If anyone fancies the Manchester show, I reckon I am well overdue a night out (wonders what ridiculous outfit this middle aged cishet body can squeeze into for the occasion...)

AngryAttackKittens · 04/11/2018 14:32

Grifters gonna grift.

BernardBlacksWineIcelolly · 04/11/2018 14:30

this weird pervasive belief that 'cis-gender' people shoud give trans people money

why?

Ereshkigal · 04/11/2018 14:28

This is how the theatre wrote up this magnum opus:

https://www.hackneyshowroom.com/burgerz/

"Hurled words. Thrown objects. Dodged Burgers.
After someone threw a burger at them and shouted a transphobic slur, performance artist Travis Alabanza became obsessed with burgers.
How they are made, how they feel, and smell. How they travel through the air. How the mayonnaise feels on your skin.
This show is the climax of their obsession – exploring how trans bodies survive and how, by them reclaiming an act of violence, we can address our own complicity.
Carving out a place for themselves as one of the UK’s prominent trans voices, Alabanza presents a performance that is timely, unsettling and powerful"

AngryAttackKittens · 04/11/2018 14:21

Had a bottle thrown at me once when I was walking along with a boyfriend when we were about 17, because we both looked "weird". A burger would have been far less alarming.

sackrifice · 04/11/2018 14:18

This is the person that was crowd funding for taxis to get them safely in and out of the house - and the subject of this tweet where a man asked 'can you imagine what it is like leaving your home in contact fear blah blah blah' and to which pretty much every woman responded 'Yes, yes we can. And nobody is crowd funding for taxis for us'.

Just in case the background to this isn't obvious.

Burgers: A Review
LangCleg · 04/11/2018 14:14

It was free. Not stifling authoritarianism as these hopeless twits make it.

BettyDuMonde · 04/11/2018 14:10

It's no wonder Boy George has short shrift for all this

Moyet too!

Been there, seen it, bedazzled the T-shirt.

LangCleg · 04/11/2018 14:05

It's no wonder Boy George has short shrift for all this, is it?

(I went to Taboo a couple of times!)

NothingOnTellyAgain · 04/11/2018 14:04

I've had stuff thrown at me while I've been out minding my own business..?

Stuff with more damage potential than a burger!

Its really interesting how these people get outraged over what for others is just a shitty thing and what can you do, brush yourself off and keep going. It shows how safe they expect/ have learnt the world is? And yet (general) often dismiss the complaints of people who have this shit as a fact of life.

SpartacusAutisticusAHF · 04/11/2018 13:51

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BettyDuMonde · 04/11/2018 13:49

Leigh was amazing (and kind of terrifying) - I used to go to Kinky Gerlinky back in the day and Leigh’s wife Nicola, went on to a LTR with a friend of mine (no longer together, but had two lovely kids).

I know the TRA’s like to paint us as a bunch of pearl-clutching net-curtain twitchers but I’ve definitely had more street abuse for looking like a weirdo than Travis Alabanza has had free burgers.
Wearing a giddy outfit doesn’t afford you legal rights to spaces designated for minority groups that you don’t actually belong to though. That’s my line!

LangCleg · 04/11/2018 13:48

Sorely missed. Rest in Power, Leigh.

Seconded. Travis doesn't even make it to the level of pound shop Leigh Bowery.

SpartacusAutisticusAHF · 04/11/2018 13:38

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Gileswithachainsaw · 04/11/2018 13:35

What does he think happens to lots of women who are walking along minding their own business?

Probably thinks we should be flattered Hmm

Juells · 04/11/2018 13:35

Also I can't help noticing that the sex of the burger-thrower isn't specified, but it's made clear that A WOMAN walking by didn't rush to defend him.

SpartacusAutisticusAHF · 04/11/2018 13:35

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Juells · 04/11/2018 13:34

What does he think happens to lots of women who are walking along minding their own business?

Ereshkigal · 04/11/2018 13:32

Sadly the London run is finished, but next stop Manchester!

Gileswithachainsaw · 04/11/2018 13:29

Oh my god I want to go to this! Mumsnet outing?

I'm in

We will be able to identify eachother if we all go dye our hair blue , wear neon boob tubes and keep our laces untied.

AngryAttackKittens · 04/11/2018 13:28

Just reading that review is painful, imagine how excruciating it must have been for the audience.

NotTerfNorCis · 04/11/2018 13:28

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Badgerthebodger · 04/11/2018 13:27

Hahaha that twitter thread is pure gold Grin

MistressFunbox · 04/11/2018 13:26

Oh my god I want to go to this! Mumsnet outing?