Jessica McKerlie’s Gender Spanner returns to Fringe World and is showing at Rigby’s Bar until Janaury 25th.

McKerlie brought the show to Perth last year and told us how it was developed.

“I lived in London for a few years and while I was there I was part of an amazing production called ‘Puff Ball’ which was an LGBT youth circus project, it was just amazing.

“It was a real eye opener to be involved in something that had Arts Council support and was supporting young queer artists.  We worked together over a year, so you got to know everyone really well.

“It was the first time I heard the terms genderqueer and genderfluid and it got me thinking. I was writing a lot at the time and I realised a lot of my writing was about coming out and gender. So I put all that all together and made a show.” McKerlie said.

Scott-Patrick Mitchell saw the show in 2016 and described it as a “queer cavalcade of burlesque, poetry, cabaret, circus fun and gender fluidity.”

Get tickets to see the show at Fringe World.

OIP Staff, image: Sue Walker