Presented by Next Wave Festival 2018
Devised and performed by Mossy 333, Romy Fox, Bobuq Sayed and Mick Klepner Roe
With Ainslie Templeton
Director Mick Klepner Roe
Sound design Romy Fox with Mossy 333
Costume design Debris Facility
Set design M’ck McKeague & Jac Antcliff
Auslan artist Bethany Robinson
Lighting and AV design Andre Vanderwert
Stage Manager China Aleisse
Assistant Stage Manager Betty Buckrich
Producer Rhen Soggee
Mentors Shian Law (dance), Marco Cher Gibard (sound), Sapidah Kian (dramaturg)
AV Editing Evie Poggioli
Captions Operator Russell Wong
Sound Engineer Freya Adele
Images Sarah Walker
Gorging on hormones, a coven of trannies launch a terrorist attack on the body, rewiring the circuitry of sex and resistance. But when the lights come up and the anaesthetic wears off, the consequences of disrupting the hardware of gender become painfully apparent.
Interrogating contemporary transgender realities, performance collective Embittered Swish (Romy Fox, Mossy 333, Bobuq Sayed, Mick Klepner Roe) returns to the stage with a dark gesture to a near future. Fuelled by an urgent eroticism, Estrogenesis fuses movement, lyricism, video and live sound art to tell a story of body hacking, shape-shifting, ostracism and the allure of teetering on the edge.
Presented in association with The Brunswick Mechanics Institute, Estrogenesis has been commissioned and developed through Next Wave’s Kickstart Helix program. The project is supported by the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria and the Healthy Equal Youth program as well as the Victorian Aids Council. Materials supported by the Theatre Research Institute.