But that’s not what happens in the Kitchen Theatre Company’s production of Brahman/i: A One Hijra Comedy Show. Written by the award winning playwright Aditi Brennan Kapil as the first part of her Displaced Hindu Gods Trilogy, Brahman/i takes the form of a standup comedy show performed by the intersex main character “B,” and sheds light on the often overlooked experience of the I in LGBTQIA+. Traces of the Hindu religion and mythology are everywhere in this play, subdued but also impossible to ignore. Brahman/i is a lot of wonderful things, to be sure, but there is also a lot more that I wish it were. It wasn’t enough of a real standup comedy, and it also wasn’t enough of a heart-wrenching coming of age story.

Source: Daily Sun October 17, 2017 04:30 UTC