"I'm here with you too Germaine - lying awake at night and wondering where that last century went."
On the day The Female Eunuch is issued in America, a transgender woman in flapping draperies rushes up to Germaine Greer and says: thank you - thank you so much for all you’ve done for us girls.
Ugly Sisters is an operatic, heretic, parasitic and hallucinatory retelling of this very moment, of sisterhood, of all feminist history.
piss / CARNATION are a multi-award winning transfemme performance duo. this is a horrible, messy and dirty and sinister work in progress of their new show UGLY SISTERS. it is the surreal rendition of a real-life encounter between Germaine Greer and her transgender superfan which bridges live-art, alt-comedy and speculative fiction. but really, it is a love story. and it is award winning. even tho it hasn't been made rly yet.
CW: strobe lighting, nudity.
previous acclaim:
UNTAPPED AWARD WINNER
OFFIE AWARD WINNER
★★★★ - “brutally revealing and beautifully soft” - The Guardian
★★★★★ - “genuinely groundbreaking” - To Do List
★★★★★ - “nuclear charm and shocking gusto” North West End
★★★★★ - “truly dark” Reviews Hub
Co-created in collaboration with François·e Charmaille and the generous support of the Judith E. Wilson Centre.
The performance (26/06) will be followed by an open discussion with the artists, featuring Dr EK Myerson and Emrys Travis. EK Myerson is a cultural critic and artist, author of The Desire for Syria in Medieval England, and articles in Wasafiri, postmedieval, New Medieval Literatures, GLQ, Wellcome Collection Stories and the TLS. Emrys Travis is the editor of Transgender Studies Quarterly 11(2): The Trans Marxist Issue.