Following the reading of Trans Scripts, staged at A.R.T.'s Oberon Theatre, is a human rights panel discussion led by Timothy Patrick McCarthy, award-winning Harvard faculty member and director of the Carr Center’s Sexuality, Gender, and Human Rights Program.
A.R.T describes the new project, which premiered at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe earlier this year, as a verbatim play. "Their true stories, told in their own words, are honest, funny, moving, insightful, and inspiring. But most of all, they are human, shedding light not on our differences, but on what all people share, regardless of gender identity, sexual orientation, or physical sex," state earlier press notes.
The cast of Trans Scripts features Calpernia Addams, Jay Knowles, Bianca Leigh, Jodie Lynne McClintock, Carolyn M. Smith and Julia Motyka.
"In the past several years, transgender visibility around the world has exploded," continue A.R.T press notes. "Actresses like Laverne Cox ('Orange Is The New Black'), celebrities like Chaz Bono, directors like Lana Wachowski ('The Matrix'), and sports figures like Caitlyn Jenner are entering the public consciousness, appearing in film, on television, and even mainstream comic books. But what does the average person actually know about the true, lived experience of transgender women? Not the life of someone in the public eye, but the day-to-day reality of being trans in Western culture." "My Trans Identity Shouldn't Affect Me," Says Dominique Jackson On Not Being Cast, Health Care and Hate Crimes
Tickets to the reading are free and can be reserved online at AmercianRepertoryTheater.org.
