Burgers: A Review

[ItsAllGoingToBeFine]

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

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!

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.

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

(I went to Taboo a couple of times!)

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

Moyet too!

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

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

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.

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.

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"

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

why?

Grifters gonna grift.

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...)

How do you write that with a straight face

Betty I missed it in London due to holiday abroad and want to see it so much that I may just come up just for that!

The take-home message seems to be that it doesn't matter whether or not it's men chucking the burgers, because the point is that women aren't devoting enough emotional energy to Travis. And that's why we should all give him money.

But would Travis still want money if we put [insert pronoun here cos I CBA to check what it is this week] face on a fifty quid note? Surely the currency would suffice?!

I could see that resulting in more people being not only willing but eager to give those particular notes away...

As an aside, I used to stand on CXR and in Leicester Square at all hours flyering for these clubs (couldn’t afford to pay to get in).

I certainly didn’t expect a crowdfunded taxi to safely shepherd me about, and I have an averagely vulnerable female body, as opposed to a male one in ‘transfeminine’ attire.

I’m not saying that what I and my contemporaries did back then was sensible (especially not the hitchhiking that we did all over the country) but we certainly didn’t expect others to mitigate our risks for us.

Honestly, I don’t think I would give a fuck about the current TRA nonsense if they A) didn’t expect women to act as human shields and/or budge up and make room for them and b) stayed the fuck away from kiddies.

Travis would then start moaning about the cashless society.

I wonder if you can donate via bitcoin, to square the circle of ridiculous social movements?

When she was a teen a friend went through a barefoot stage. She went everywhere barefoot. Once these lads threw cans of drinks at us, while we were crossing the street.

Can I star in my own show called Pop? It'll be about the hours we were pissed off about this. And the hours out took our clothes to dry. And the flashbacks we both get when crossing the road.

I think maybe he studied drama with Mr G?

m.youtube.com/watch?v=awGUvwNzC4w

Yes Kat we’ll crowdfund it!

Can I do a guest turn about the time a man shouted ‘Taylor Swift’ at me?

I was waiting at the lights on my bicycle and he was driving the other way.

I didn’t know who the fuck Taylor Swift actually was at the time, so I had to ask Uncle Google later. Still not sure if it was an insult or a compliment.

#traumatised

A man once mouthed ‘What the fuck IS that?’ as I walked towards him.

I quite liked that reaction.