About This Show
Ash Palmisciano is just your average guy… who also happens to be trans. He’s lived as male for a year now but he still feels like there’s something missing. That is until he meets Jay, the uber-macho new guy at work, who’s brash, arrogant… and exactly the kind of man Ash wants to be! After a wild night out together in Leamington Spa where Jay teaches him to man up, strut and banter, Ash embarks on a quest to become THE ULTIMATE LAD. It’s a quest that will take him from working as a peasant at Warwick Castle to romancing a princess at Euro Disney as he as he learns all the wrong lessons about masculinity… For as Ash is about to find out, life as ‘top lad’ isn’t really all it’s cracked up to be…
A work in progress written by and starring award-winning actor Ash Palmisciano (Summer in London, RSC’s King Lear), THE ULTIMATE LAD is a hilarious and life-affirming autobiographical story about lad culture, being yourself, and the rules men feel they need to live by, told by someone who has experienced masculinity from both sides.
Crescent – Part of the Vaults Festival
