A TRANS INTERNET ROM-COM MUSICAL CRASHES INTO THE OLD FITZ
THEATRE
What happens when the internet’s most perfect trans influencer meets her biggest
hater…and they fall in love?
After sold-out concert runs at Adelaide Cabaret Festival and Hayes Festival of New Work, A Transgender Woman on the Internet, Crying explodes onto the stage in a full-scale hyperpop musical at the Old Fitz Theatre.
Created by Cassie Hamilton, this riotous, high-octane lovers-to-enemies-to-lovers odyssey dives headfirst into stan culture, cancel culture and the impossible pressure of being “the right kind” of anything online. It’s sharp, it’s chaotic, it’s painfully funny, and it asks the gloriously messy question: What are trans people actually allowed to see themselves as?
Avis O’Hara (@theDIYDoll) is glossy, aspirational and internet-famous. Corrin Verbeck is aleft-tube crusader determined to expose her as everything wrong with modern trans politics. But when Corrin infiltrates Avis’s world, the algorithm does what the algorithm does best: it gets complicated.
Certainly not a tragedy, and definitely not a TED talk, this is a glitter-drenched hyperpop musical about projection, desire, clout-chasing and the deeply embarrassing vulnerability of falling in love with the person you subtweeted.
Directed by Jean Tong (Flat Earthers: The Musical; Heartbreak High), with musical direction by Lillian Hearne, the production features a thrilling trans and gender-diverse cast includingCassie Hamilton (Satranic Panic), Blake Appelqvist (Fangirls; & Juliet), Rosie Rai and Teo Vergara.
Fierce and unapologetically online, A Transgender Woman on the Internet, Crying is a joyfulprovocation and a pop-musical fever dream that refuses to behave.
Because sometimes the most radical thing a trans person can be…is messy.
Produced by Green Door Theatre Company, producers of the Trans Theatre Festival,
Sistren, Overflow and seven methods of killing kylie jenner
★★★★★ – GLAM ADELAIDE
★★★★★ – THE CLOTHESLINE
“Ingenious…life-changing for a young queer person” – IN DAILY
INFORMATION
Cast & Creatives
Book, Music and Lyrics: Cassie Hamilton
Director: Jean Tong
Music Director: Lillian Hearne
Cast: Cassie Hamilton, Blake Appelqvist, Rosie Rai, Teo Vergara
Co-Lighting Designers: Rachel Lee & Nick Moloney
Sound Designer: Em-Jay Dwyer
Set & Costume Designer: Ruby Jenkins
Intimacy Coordinator: Bayley Turner
Produced by Green Door Theatre
Old Fitz Theatre
Season: 26th March – 11th April. (previews 26/03 & 27/03, community night 28/03, no
performance Friday 3/04)
Times: Tues-Fri 7pm, Sat 2pm & 7pm, Sun 5pm
Old Fitz Theatre
Season: 26th March – 11th April. (previews 26/03 & 27/03, community night 28/03, no
performance Friday 3/04)
Times: Tues-Fri 7pm, Sat 2pm & 7pm, Sun 5pm
Run time: approximately 90 mins, no interval
