The Butch Monologues

Written by Laura Bridgeman
Directed by Julie McNamara
Stage Manager Siobhan Barbour
Developed by The Drakes, a London-based group of butches, transmen and gender rebels

Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras in association with Theatre Works present a powerful and often humorous collection of secret stories exploring sexuality, vulnerability and desire taken from interviews with butches, masculine women, gender rebels and transmen living world-wide. Based on the true stories of butch-identified women living in the UK, Europe, USA, Caribbean and now Australia, this work offers fresh language and intonation on butch beginnings, butch desire and desirability, butch bravado and vulnerability, butch-on-femme sex, butch-on-butch sex, switches, stones, butch as a trap, the butch body, violence, heroes and clothing.