Overflow
The Darlinghurst Theatre Company has curated a play written by a black British writer – playwright, poet -/performance artist/theatre maker, Travis Alabanza (they/them) called OVERFLOW (2020). Set in a fashionable gleaming night club bathroom we meet a trans femme, Rosie (Janet Aderson (she/her), who has locked herself in the bathroom and begins talking of ‘the joy of the pre-emptive piss’ that leads to many further anecdotal recall of the personal distress she has experienced in such spaces – this politically sensitive liminal space – that emotionally triggers a reaction that causes her to block the sinks, toilet and floor drain with…