Show by an Egyptian set for the Edinburgh Fringe described as “theatrically sophisticated and potent”
An Egyptian show set to feature at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival is “theatrically sophisticated and potent” with “sensitive and clever crafting,” The Guardian’s Lyn Gardner reviews. The show is about the story of Kashmiry, “a young Egyptian man who not only had to journey across the border controls erected around gender but also the borders of countries. This is a journey from female to male, and from Egypt to Glasgow. It is performed on stage not just by Kashmiry but also by Neshla Caplan as the female element of Adam.” Gardner writes: “This duality works brilliantly, showing up the absurdity of the gender binary model and making manifest the male in the female and the female in the male. The two become constantly shifting overlaying images of each other as Adam is caught in a system where he cannot access help from a gender clinic until he is given asylum and cannot get asylum until he can prove that he really is transgender. His desperation is depicted in violent detail, but essentially this is a happy-ever-after fairytale.” The show is also highlighted in The Telegraph and The Scotsman.