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Theatre Review: And the Rest of Me Floats
Unique blend of poetry and politics a challenge to gender regulation
Powerful: Michelle Tiwo
[Helen Murray]
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And the Rest of Me Floats
Bush Theatre, London
SPECTACULAR and challenging, And the Rest of Me Floats is an interrogation of how we control and regulate our bodies, forcing them into inadequate and restrictive gendered boxes, male and female.
But, more importantly, it’s about celebrating those trans and gender non-conforming individuals who refuse that regulation and that simplistic binary choice.
Devised by the Outbox Theatre company, the play offers snatches of the cast’s personal narratives – stories of coming out and moving through the world as someone who doesn’t fit – but these never coalesce into a traditional narrative thread and are all the more powerful for refusing to.
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