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Why is
John Lennon wearing a skirt?

Every REVOLUTION begins with a really big question

DESENCAJA 2014 Best Show Award

TEA 2012 Audience Award

SHARP and IRONIC

depicts in a cheerful but SHATTERING way

the social convention about GENDER

'60s.

She grows up aiming to be a Beatle.

Or a boy at least.

"The minimalism on the staging works in its favour, as the superb play and EXCELLENT performing do not need no more" (Andrés Molinaria, Ideal)

“Inma fills the whole stage with REAL and TRUE acting.

A ‘60s storytelling but CONTEMPORARY like never before” (Fernando Cayo, Actor)

“It broches the gender identity and equality issue pointing to the main cause: EDUCATION.

An ideal example of how useful performing arts are for social and cultural progress" 

(Steffano Barozzi, UGR)

"A happy gender GRINDER”

(Pepe Henríquez, Diagonal)

The Playwright

London Fringe 1991 award with “Why is John Lennon wearing a skirt?”, playwright and performer Claire Dowie has a reputation for work that defies categorisation.


Originally trained as a dancer, she started writing poetry (published by Faber and Apples and Snakes) and quickly gained a reputation as an outspoken and hilarious stand up comic and on the cabaret circuit in the early eighties. She felt limited by the need for punchlines and started writing plays, inventing her own genre: stand up theatre. 

Dowie’s plays "Death and Dancing", "From H to He", "Adult Child, Death Child" have been mainly produced in UK (http://www.clairedowie.co.uk/). Her masterpiece is staged in Spain for the first time thanks to La Palabra Teatro.

“Beckett, a woman” (The Guardian)

Claire Dowie Dramaturga Actriz Inma Gonzalez La Palabra Compañía Por qué John Lennon lleva falda Monólogo Identidad Igualdad de Género Drama Comedia Monólogo Teatro social LGTBI

The Team

Inma Gonzalez Actriz teatro tv cine La Palabra Teatro Por qué John Lennon lleva falda Educación identidad igualdad de género LGTBI Madrid Andalucía Granada

Jamie-Glyn Bale

Director

Inma Gonzalez Actriz Cantante teatro tv cine La Palabra compañía Por qué John Lennon lleva falda Educación identidad igualdad de género LGTBI Madrid Andalucía Granada Premios

Inma González

Actor

Producer / Company director

Almudena Oneto Diseño de Iluminación Inma Gonzalez Actriz Cantante teatro tv cine La Palabra compañía Por qué John Lennon lleva falda Educación identidad igualdad de género LGTBI Madrid Andalucía Granada Premios

Almudena Oneto

Light Design

Reviews

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