Gender Messy

It’s about gender. About how some of us are boys, and some of us are girls, and some of us aren’t either. It’s about how sometimes the way we look on the outside isn’t the same as the way we feel on the inside.

Gender Messy was a short performance that Emma made with her child, Joey, when they were aged 9. Performed as a cabaret / magic show / 90’s saturday morning kids tv show - together they tried to untangle some of the mess around gender in a riotous and beautiful magic show demonstrating that things aren’t always as they appear.

Containing slapstick humour, pyrotechnics, puppets, gunge, glue and a bunch of glitter!

Initial R&D for Gender Messy was supported by Fatt Projects with Cambridge Junction for PALAVER, a pioneering new development programme supporting the creation of new queer-positive performance work for children and family audiences.