A rugby ball’s soft, a hockey stick’s hard, what does that make me? – Boy, 12 Hello, we’re Ell and Mary. We’re ex-girlfriends and bisexuals and we’re a bit bummed out by boys. Three years ago we interviewed women and transpeople aged 11 to 97 for our five-star sell-out show Hotter. We didn’t interview men. We just didn’t want to. Because men are trash, right? Wrong. Well, sometimes wrong. We asked trans-men, cis-men, and masculine presenting people aged 8 to 82 about what makes them hard. This is a show about what we learned: about strength, fitting in, feeling yourself, and arseholes. Through singing, dancing, and f*cking around in crap drag, Ell and Mary write a love letter to masculinity which they are forever tearing up and taping back together again.
Part of Alchymy 2020