Speaking Out and Fitting In!

Striking performance poetry, disarming comedy, and a celebration of gender fluidity from a Transwoman playfully establishing her voice. Alice d”Lumiere generally prefers to go unnoticed; she yearns to be an ordinary person on the train, or in the supermarket. She’s happy to be anonymous; a sensible, middle-aged woman… However, she’s also a writer, an actor and a performance artist; and therefore cursed with an occasional, but irresistible desire to speak up, stand out and be utterly unmissable! Alice is also gender fluid and for her existing as a part-time Transwoman makes everyday life a complex, but intriguing adventure… Speaking Out and Fitting In is a solo show in striking performance poetry and disarming comedy, with flashes of cabaret and burlesque, in which Alice playfully explores the wonderful, if occasionally counter-intuitive, position of the gender-fluid individual striving to both fit in to another gender whilst yearning to establish a unique, personal voice for themselves. The show began when Alice was asked to loan one of her performance dresses to a Museum; a privilege she thought was reserved for the deceased and royalty; she then ended that year performing in public as a live Christmas Fairy. This is a celebratory piece about how delightfully queer life can be when you decide to step beyond your birth gender.