During this witty soul search ('The Gender Play' at aboutfacechi through 6/3), Wilhelm happily brings the audience into the fold, remarking with an air knock on an air door, “Have you noticed a fourth wall yet?” | ✍️ Kimzyn Campbell
Gender Play, or what you Will
, is the perfect platform for them to explore their gender journey while also expressing their more dramatic side via monologuing with a side of dissertation. In this charming one-enby show, Wilhelm invites us into their red, velvet-covered salon to explore their lived gender experience through the lens of a séance/tarot reading/soliloquy mash-up on the timelessness of genderqueering, as evidenced by the words of William Shakespeare himself.
One of the most fascinating aspects of Wilhelm’s performance is the singsong rhythm that emerges as they toggle back and forth from the Elizabethan English of their namesake to modern English, selecting epic scenes from various plays by the bard, including.
Instead, Wilhelm digs deep into the experience of being othered as a trans person and draws parallels between the othered folks that Shakespeare made sure to represent . They also delicately note that their reflection on Shakespeare necessarily involves their own reflections on themself, echoing Shakespeare’s “The purpose of playing . . . is to hold, as ‘twere, a mirror up to nature”—the magic essence of all art.
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