No Title
A seemingly trivial incident at the bank propelled me down a linguistic road of no return
In 2014, a seemingly trivial and boring incident at the bank propelled me down a linguistic road via medieval werewolves, Ms Marvel and confusingly inscribed gravestones, to find out why the English language is riddled with all this gender. What鈥檚 it FOR? How did it GET there? Will it go AWAY now please? It is, at the very least, taking up brainspace and not paying any rent.
This is a recording of a live performance at the Blueberry Hill Duck Room in St Louis, Missouri on 23 November 2019, and there were visuals happening, so I鈥檒l drop in sometimes to explain them, and there are pictures and transcript on The Allusionist website.
Warning: there are swears in this. There are also arguments that will be very useful to you if you ever come up against a denier of singular they. You will definitely win.
No Title's words were written by Helen Zaltzman and the music by Martin Austwick. The show was performed by Helen Zaltzman and Martin Austwick and Richard Zaltzman. Produced by Dan Strickland (live) and Helen Zaltzman (post). Thanks to Velvet Dibley, Rachele De Felice and Ben Zimmer for information and research that was useful in the show.
