Big Girl's Blouse

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Who knew what being transgender was in the 1970s? Not Kate’s family. To be fair, crispy pancakes had only just landed in the Midlands so she had her work cut out.
The path to becoming a woman doesn’t always run smooth and with a lifetime of coming out, Kate has had to use every trick — theatrical and otherwise — to get by.

Big Girl’s Blouse sees Kate make a song and dance about her life using humour, music and costume to tell her story.

Winner of Brighton Fringe LGBTQ Award 2015
Created in collaboration with Olivier Award-winning director Mark Whitelaw.

“Furiously funny” The Sunday Times
“A Manchester Legend” Time Out Manchester
“Tight, elegant and fearless” Rachel Morris, Sex Psychotherapist Cosmopolitan
“DO NOT ATTEND IF YOU CAN’T LOVE” David Hoyle

Presented by Kate O’Donnell & Contact. Big Girl’s Blouse is commissioned by Contact. Supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England. Big Girl’s Blouse was commissioned with support by the Wellcome Collection as part 
of the Sexology Season.

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Fri 11 Mar
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After the show, stay in the Studio and take the chance to talk to Kate O’Donnell about her show, what inspired it, how she made it and what it’s like to tour the country with it.