“The Trans Lady Sings!”
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Written and Performed by Alice d’Lumiere
Original Composition by Tina Gooding, with additional music by Alice d’Lumiere
Alice d’Lumiere who will also be a special guest story-teller at True Stories Live: Loud and Proud event on Sunday.
To gender fluid spoken word artist Alice d’Lumiere, classical music has always seemed terrifyingly stratified: Soprano, Contralto, Tenor, Bass; is the role you play always ordained by the limits of your vocal physiology? However, in the superficially respectable world of Opera, gender seems temptingly bendy at times…
For Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival 2021 Alice staged a “Spoken Word Overture”. At this evening of new experimental opera she laid down a challenge to herself in prose and verse; a pledge to try and overcome her deep, childhood inability to sing…
Two years, one ACE funded DYCP, numerous singing lessons with 6 different practitioners, scripting, composing, rehearsing and furiously attempting to relearn how to play to piano later, this self-confessed outsider in gender, and 51 year old late-starter in opera, returned to Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival 2023 to reveal if she was finally able to hold a note.
“Trans Lady Sings!” is the result of this eccentric endeavour…
Themes of vocal identity, gender fluidity, life-long learning and the individual’s need for self-expression are humorously explored by a beguiling communicator in a 90 minute show; combining prose, verse, comedy, a dash of performance art and yes, perhaps this time some actual singing! Contains original music and possibly some foolhardy attempts at the classical repertoire.
“… humorous, heart-warming overture… ‘the score isn’t settled until the Trans Lady Sings.” – A Younger Theatre
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- At Norwich Arts Centre on Sun 28 Jul 2024 @ 2:30 PM
£6.50-£12.50
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Book Now
- At Norwich Arts Centre on Sun 28 Jul 2024 @ 2:30 PM
£6.50-£12.50
No admin fees and 10% off the bar. Visit our 'Support Us' page to join today. FREE for under 26s.
Seated