Porscha Present is a singer, pianist, performer, and tutor currently playing Mermaid, Baba Yaga in Red Palace.
Camilla Harding is a performer, actor, and drag-dabbler currently playing Prince, Wolf, and an unnamed mystery character in Red Palace.
Red Palace is a Shotgun Carousel production, written by Cressida Peever and directed by Celine Lowenthal. It’s running at The Vaults until January 12.
Porscha’s #FeministFaves are femmes with facial hair, the Gurls Talk online community founded by Adwoa Aboah, and the model Sophia Hadjipanteli.
Milly’s #FeministFave is the tattoo artist Mani.Tattoo who focuses on tattooing as a sacred and ancient art, and often tattoos darker skin and people of colour.
Beth’s #FeministFaves are the apocalyptic zombie movie The Girl With All The Gifts netflix, and the documentary about women running for congress Knock Down The House netflix.
Pippa’s #FeministFaves are lesbian activist singer-songwriter Grace Petrie and her song Black Tie, plus a series of articles about Butch identities recently published on Refinery29: Butch Is Beautiful, and A Butch Dandy & A Trans Man Get Real About The Intersection Of Their Identities.
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The Pleasance Theatre’s Best of Edinburgh Fringe including:
Bible John & Honeybee Nov 2 - 3
Madame Ovary Nov 8 - 10
A History of Water In The Middle East The Royal Court until Nov 16
i will still be whole (when you rip me in half) bunker The Bunker Nov 12 - 23
(Read Pippa’s blog response to i will still be whole, and listen to our podcast episode with writer Ava Wong Davies)
Before I Was A Bear The Bunker Nov 12 - 23
(Use the discount code BECHDEL10 for a cheap ticket and join us for a post-show audience conversation about Before I Was A Bear on Thurs Nov 21)
Girl From Nowhere at The Bedford Nov 13 - 14
I’m A Phoenix, Bitch at HOME Manchester Nov 26 - 30
Plant Fetish at HOME Manchester Nov 27 - 30
Abortion Rights Abortion Cabaret at Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club on Nov 6.
Fokin’ Bring It On Lads at Rosemary Branch Nov 6 - 9
[Blank] The Donmar Warehouse until Nov 30.
Burgerz on tour, tickets available in Warwick, Birmingham, Bristol, and Cambridge, until Dec 1.
(Listen to our podcast episode with Travis Alabanza)
Queens of Sheba touring to Bristol, Warwick, Battersea, Essex & Leicester. Until Nov 29.
(Listen to our podcast episode talking about Queens of Sheba)
Trojan Horse touring to Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle, Halifax, Liverpool, Huddersfield, Doncaster, Hull, Lancaster, Norwich, Mold, Bradford, London, and Birmingham. Until Nov 21.
It’s True, It’s True, It’s True touring to Manchester, Doncaster, Sheffield, Nottingham, Newcastle, East Riding, Warwick, Salisbury York, Plymouth, Oxford, Halifax and Leeds. Until Nov 23.
Desiree’s Coming Early Soho Theatre Nov 11 – 23
Since U Been Gone Camden People’s Theatre Nov 19 – 20
(Listen to our podcast episode with Teddy Lamb)
I, AmDram Camden People’s Theatre Nov 26 – 30.