Trans Vegas, the UK’s largest festival celebrating trans and non-binary artists from Manchester, across the UK and beyond, will present Jamie Hale’s CRIPtic Cabaret x NOT DYING as part of their November schedule focusing on non-binary artists.
Following the sell-out launch of Trans Vegas 2022 in July, which simultaneously launched Travis Alabanza’s memoir None of the Above plus opening Manchester Pride in August, with the Trans Filth and Joy stage show and party, Trans Vegas return to Manchester with the second of three spectacular events this November.
CRIPtic Arts presents a double bill of riotous, political and joyful work by d/Deaf and disabled performers with CRIPtic Cabaret x NOT DYING. Following their sold-out Barbican Pit Party Cabaret in 2019 & 2021, CRIPtic Arts are heading to Manchester especially for TransVegas.
The CRIPtic Cabaret includes performances by folk singer Kit Dennis (Manchester Folk Festival, Sunday Singaround Resident), comedian Sam Serrano (DAVE Disability Showcase; runner up for Comedy Bloomers: LGBT Comedian of the Year 2019, finalist of the Leicester Square New Comedian of the Year 2019), poet and performer Ashleigh Wilder (Macbeth 2022, Leeds Playhouse; Transcendence Trans Creative Festival, 2021; In Progress: for Love Bites York Theatre Royal, 2021) plus singer/songwriter Dennis Queen.
The cabaret is just the start of the evening, followed by a performance of NOT DYING created by Jamie Hale. NOT DYING is a multidisciplinary solo(ish) show exposing the interiority of their experiences with disability and mortality. Fusing poetry, monologue, and theatre, NOT DYING is both a manifesto of change, boldly highlighting the way disableism sears across their life, limiting their independence and autonomy and a love letter to wholeness, queer sex and the bold, transgressive act of living joyfully as a disabled person.
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Deftly balancing the starkness of facing one’s death with the expansive work of being a disabled person in the world, it brings together comedy and confessional work, sexuality and self-expression, to end on a note that holds the joy of being alive, in a world that can be changed.
Directed by Athena Stevens and Produced by Caitlin Richards for CRIPtic Arts, it has a soundscape designed by Julian Starre & Lawrence Keaton, original composition from CN Lester, and lighting design by Al Simpson.
The event takes place on 11th November, more information can be found here
