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Performance: "Burgerz" by Travis Alabanza
Venue: Moss Arts Center at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg
Directions: Google Map Link
Date: Saturday, April 9, 2022
Time: 7:30 - 9:00 PM
Event Types: Music
Cost:
Adults Tickets: $25.00 Students with ID and Youth 18 & Under: $10.00

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Description:
The Moss Arts Center at Virginia Tech presents the performances "Burgerz" by Travis Alabanza with three performances on Friday, April 8, 2022 and Saturday, April 9, 2022 inside The Cube.

Performance Schedule:
• Friday, April 8th at 7:30 PM
• Saturday, April 9th at 4:00 PM
• Saturday, April 9th at 7:30 PM

Hurled words. Thrown objects. Dodged burgers. After someone threw a burger at them and shouted a transphobic slur, Travis Alabanza became obsessed with burgers. How they’re made, how they feel and smell. How they travel through the air. How the mayonnaise feels on your skin.

This show is the climax of their obsession, exploring how trans bodies survive and how, by them reclaiming an act of violence, we can address our own complicity. Carving out a place for themselves as one of the U.K.’s prominent trans voices, Alabanza presents a performance that is funny and timely, yet unsettling and powerful.

Travis Alabanza is an award winning writer, performer and theatre maker. Their writing has appeared in the BBC, Guardian, Vice, Gal-Dem and previously had a fortnightly column in the metro. After being the youngest recipient of the artist in residency program at Tate Galleries, Alabanza debut show Burgerz toured internationally to sold out shows in Southbank Centre, Sao Paulo Brazil, HAU Berlin & won the Edinburgh Fringe Total Theatre award in 2019. Their writing has appeared in numerous anthologies including Black and Gay In the UK.

In 2020 their recent theatre show Overflow debuted at the Bush Theatre to widespread acclaim and later streamed online in over 22 countries. Other works for theatre and live performance include Royal Court Living Newspaper, Paines Plough, Free Word Centre, Glasgow Transmission Gallery and more. Their work surrounding gender, trans identity and race has been noted internationally, giving talks at universities including Oxford, Harvard, Bristol and more.

Noted for their distinct voice, in 2019 the Evening Standard listed them as one of the 25 most influential under 25 year olds, as well as being listed in the Dazed100, guardian asking if ‘they are the future of theatre’ and recently being listed on the Forbes30Under30List.

Links:

• https://travisalabanza.co.uk/
• https://www.facebook.com/travisalabanzaartist
• https://www.instagram.com/travisalabanza/

Adults tickets are $25.00 and tickets for students with ID and youth ages 18 & under are $10.00.

To register online, visit: https://tickets.artscenter.vt.edu/Online/seatSelect.asp?createBO::WSmap=1&BOparam::WSmap::loadBestAvailable::performance_ids=118320F2-DE80-4C30-979E-135CC1A3C55E.

Presented in partnership with the LGBTQ+ Resource Center at Virginia Tech.

For more information, visit: https://artscenter.vt.edu/performances/burgerz-alabanza.html or https://www.facebook.com/artscenteratvt or call 540-231-5300.