A true tale of love and transition told through the story of Pinocchio with amazing imagery. The audience so far has called it ‘the queer love story of the year’! In this hybrid of theatre and film, shot and edited all in one take, you are invited to go behind the scenes of Cade & MacAskill’s creative process and their relationship, and question what it takes to tell your truth.
Artists and lovers Rosana Cade and Ivor MacAskill have been creating The Making of Pinocchio since 2018, alongside and in response to Ivor’s gender transition. In this live performance of the work, their tender and complex autobiographical experience meets the magical story of the lying puppet who wants to be a ‘real boy’. The The show joyfully embraces the importance of imagination in queer worldmaking and the idea of transness as a state of possibility that can trouble fixed perspectives and inspire change.
(Cover photo: Trafó)
