Collective
co-create
Date:
Dec 2024
Intro:
In this collaborative exploration, we draw on Judith Butler’s theory that gender is not an innate essence but the result of repeated stylized acts. As Butler writes in Gender Trouble,
“Gender is constituted through the stylized repetition of acts.”
Building on this, we examine how Some Like It Hot uses cross- dressing to parody and expose the cultural codes of “masculinity” and “femininity.” In our adaptation, each performer not only embodies the original character but also its reverse, creating a live enactment of gender’s constructive and subversive potential.
By constantly switching roles, we invite the audience to step outside fixed binaries—to see gender as something made and unmade through performance.