Bass ain’t feminine, baritone isn’t womanly, what’s a lady to do.?
Sheanna loves to sing, she always has. But there’s just one catch: she’s a bass. She sees all the best love songs are for sopranos, and the arias written for basses are traditionally for grumpy old geezers, and that’s not her at all. What’s a lady to do?
Write a cabaret, of course, a candid, cathartic confessional and call it NO LOVE SONGS FOR LADY BASSES.
A playful and poignant blend of storytelling, comedy and song, Sheanna sings, laughs and cries through back story to breakthrough as she ditches her dead name, adopts her new one, and forges and faces her own expectations of womanhood.
Sheanna ditches singing for acting, attending cliched and hackneyed acting classes, graduating to cliched and hackneyed auditions. Her use of a glove puppet representing a stereotypical male theatre director is one of the highlights of the show.
Directed by Cassie Hamilton, with book and lyrics by up front performer Sheanna Parker Russon and music by Lillian M. Hearne, NO LOVE SONGS FOR LADY BASSES is a pensively sassy sixty minute exploration of trans womanhood.
Sheanna Parker Russon is accompanied by composer Lillian M Hearne on keyboards and sax with sound designer Aisling Bermingham on drums.
This red velvet curtain cabaret is redolent of the legacy of Kings Cross and environs, a rhapsodic Bohemia rekindled and renewed, in a programme curated by the current artistic custodians of the Old Fitz Theatre that is to be applauded.
NO LOVE SONGS FOR LADY BASSES plays the Old Fitz late slot
Friday 14 June 9.30pm;
Saturday 15 June 9.30pm;
Sunday 16 June 7.30pm
