Brick Aux presents
This Show is My Funeral
by Josephine Simple
October 13-21, 2023 – $20-50
at Brick Aux – 628 Metropolitan Ave

This show is a funeral for my pre-transition self. For real. It’s probably one of the funnier funerals you will ever attend. Come mourn and celebrate with me the life I used to have.

Written and performed by Josephine Simple (she/her)
Directed by Henry Kandell (she/they/he)
Produced by Jennifer Downes (she/her)

When certain people in my life found out about my transition, they started talking about my old self as though “he” was a different person from me, and as though “he” had died. I found this alienating, pretty irrelevant to my own experience, and, frankly, annoying. And I also saw the theatrical appeal and decided to take the metaphor of transition as death and rebirth seriously. Where I ended up was not at all what I expected.

Image Credit: The deceased at 22, photographed by Douglas Gorenstein

cw: startlingly attractive lead actor & thematic content around death

Special Thanks: The Mountains and Rivers Order of Zen Buddhism & Zen Center of New York City

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