Mangina: Tales of an XY Woman
Tales of an XY Woman was debuted in Essex, outside London and then a three show season in Melbourne, followed by a month at The Garden of Unearthly Delights at Adelaide Fringe Festival. Here are some photos from that season.
What every artist wants to see at the Ticket Office
Have you ever wondered?
Interview with a Drag Queen presents Amanda’s life story, ideas and tales from her transition from male to female. It incorporates a Q and A session where the audience may ask any of their questions, and Amanda answers honestly. Informative, educational, moving, funny and illuminating. This solo show can be presented as a full hour or longer.
What happens when a middle aged man decides to spend the rest of his life as a woman?
He accidentally becomes a drag queen and lives to tell the tale.In 1999, a fat, middle aged man had a near death experience. In a little red car at a fateful red light, a slowly dying man awoke from a long slumber and started to live.With self-deprecating humour, and the benefit of hindsight, Amanda Monroe describes the life changing events that led to her decision to change her gender.See this show and gain some understanding of the most challenging mid-life crisis it is possible to have.Sex and Drugs and Rock ‘n’ Roll became Frocks, Hormones and an international Drag Career.
Follow Amanda Monroe down her own Yellow Brick Road and hear her story.
Presentation
Adelaide ArtBeat
With humour, poignancy and fun music, Monroe draws her audience into her story and the world of a trans-sexual. There is nothing pretty about it all, other than the perhaps belated triumph of having survived it and living happily to tell us the tale. This is powerful stuff
Kryztoff Magazine
sadness, revelation and triumph … well-rehearsed … the laughs ensue.
Adelaide Advertiser
