Presented here in a smart collaboration between Silk Road Rising and About Face Theatre, Brahman/i hinges on a fiery, magnetic central performance by Fawzia Mirza, who pins down just the right kind of dangerous charisma needed to spin this tale...
Gender, cultural identity and the pains of adolescence get a thorough filleting and grilling in this story of an American child of Indian immigrants who is born intersex, with both male and female genital characteristics.
The one hour and 45 minute journey tugs at your heart strings and tickles your funny bone. The play educates and illuminates. Kudos to Ms. Mirza for memorizing what is essentially a one actor play.
Mirza, a petite but athletic actress with a sharply sardonic edge, and a persona that can shift from boyish to glam, also happens to give a tour de force performance in the role under Andrew Volkoff’s direction.
Presented in the guise of stand-up comedy, writer Aditi Brennan Kapil’s entertaining, occasionally provocative show is a treatise on the intersections of personal and cultural boundaries [...] and much of it is wildly successful.
