Charles Darwin described female animals like he described Victorian housewives: passive, coy, monogamous, submissive… the perfect foil to those swashbuckling males who are really driving evolution, as the old-school textbooks say.
It’s time to set the record straight by writing a riotous comedy cabaret show based on zoologist Lucy Cooke’s non-fiction book “B*TCH”, featuring a kaleidoscope of songs written by women and non-binary creative teams and a script by me!
Stand by for self-cloning lizards, pairs of devoted albatross mums and post-menopausal killer whales as they take the mic, scuttling/swooping/swimming onto stage to challenge outdated binary expectations of bodies, brains, biology and behaviour.
Come and see the very first 10 minutes of the show on Thursday 30th October … Read the rest
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