![]() ![]() ![]() On the catastrophe-strewn press night, on Soutra Gilmour's kitchen of a set, with its piles of pink-ribboned cardboard boxes, Alabanza sought a volunteer for this task and landed on Fraser, possibly the sweetest man ever to work in a burger bar and to find himself on stage helping a trans activist fail to cook a burger. The archetype." While doing this, they will explain how crazy it is to put people into boxes, to insist on dualistic stereotypes, to see the world in a binary state. In order to reclaim agency, to feel in control, Alabanza decided to make "the most typical burger you can see. One hundred people saw the incident and did nothing. The starting point for the play is that a burger and the insult "tranny" were simultaneously hurled at Travis in April 2016 in broad daylight. If you create an entire play around the act of cooking a burger on stage, and then – on press night – the electricity fails and you can't actually cook the burger, then it's fair to say you are facing disaster.īut the irony of the long sequence of mishaps that befell the first night of Burgerz is that they enabled the personality and the courage of its protagonist and author Travis Alabanza to emerge more strongly and dazzlingly than if everything had gone to plan. ![]()
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