Pay what you can afford  , Show starts 8pm  Will Alice learn her Aller from her Avoir, or will she be forced to resort to dance? Performance Poet, Alice d’Lumiere, is an experienced writer and comedienne; however for someone working as a communicator she is, like many British people, embarrassingly monolingual.  In 2023 Alice was invited to take her Transgender themed show Speaking Out and Fitting In to “Le Printemps Anglophone Festival” in Avignon, where despite performing a full solo work in English, she found herself unable to even order a coffee in French without causing chaos.  The Literal Translation is her playful, silly, but absurdly honest response to this failure; a piece about late life learning, shifting identity, non-conforming voices and romanticizing the exotic.  For Alice’s last show she learned opera to overcome a childhood fear of singing, this time her challenge is speaking in another language.  A bilingual, autobiographical show combining gender-fluid prose, verse, comedy and song with some foolhardy attempts at actual French! Writer / Performer: Alice d'Lumiere  Movement Director: Angelica Bangs  Composer: Tina Gooding  Translation Consultant: Katy Salmon

Venue: Colchester Arts Centre, Church Street, Colchester, Essex CO1 1NF.

Event type: PERFORMANCE.

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