Amanda brings more than Drag Queen fun and silliness. There is a serious side to this world and Amanda has learned a lot..
Her late transition to the opposite gender, navigating the world on tour as her body and mind was changing, is documented in the “Amanda” documentary.
Amanda’s experience brings you.
- Speaker
- Solo Show
- Community Groups
- Transition Advice
Amanda Monroe has a story to tell about her life and (several times over) near deaths – and it’s a wonderful story to hear… she’s with us today to share her story with humour and warmth, and it was well worth the wait.
Adelaide ArtBeat
Amanda Monroe’s Tales of an XY Woman
This solo show can be presented as a full hour or in vignettes dealing with the specifics of your educational requirements.
What happens when a middle aged man decides to spend the rest of his life as a woman?
He accidentally becomes a drag queen and lives to tell the tale.In 1999, a fat, middle aged man had a near death experience. In a little red car at a fateful red light, a slowly dying man awoke from a long slumber and started to live.With self-deprecating humour, and the benefit of hindsight, Amanda Monroe describes the life changing events that led to her decision to change her gender.See this show and gain some understanding of the most earth shattering mid-life crisis it is possible to have.Sex and Drugs and Rock ‘n’ Roll became Frocks, Hormones and an international Drag Career. Follow Amanda Monroe down her own Yellow Brick Road and hear her story.
Adelaide ArtBeat
With humour, poignancy and fun music, Monroe draws her audience into her story and the world of a trans-sexual. There is nothing pretty about it all, other than the perhaps belated triumph of having survived it and living happily to tell us the tale. This is powerful stuff
Kryztoff Magazine
sadness, revelation and triumph … well-rehearsed … the laughs ensue.
Adelaide AdvertiserTales of an XY Woman is Amanda Monroe’s solo show. It debuted in Australia at the Adelaide Fringe Festival.
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