The Trouble With Harry

The Trouble With Harry

Lose yourself in a story from Australia’s history, from a time when a person living their life as a man when they had been biologically identified as a woman was considered more of a crime than committing a murder. Siren Theatre Co’s The Trouble With Harry kicks off the theatre season at the Seymour Centre as a part of this year’s Mardi Gras and tells the tale of Eugenia Falleni, better known as Harry Crawford, who scandalised 1920’s Sydney.

“He is a survivor, he is imaginative… he’s very good at guarding his secret,” said Jodie Le Vesconte, who plays Harry. “… He’s good with men and obviously quite charming with the ladies because he married twice,” she laughed.

As he settles down with his wife into adult life almost unscathed from a turbulent childhood, a young woman changes their world, sowing the seeds of a bloody murder.

It is a periodic drama that encapsulates Harry’s world, where ‘deviant’ was the only word to describe someone who was transgender. Through the ignorance and judgement from people within the era, the audience is taken to Harry’s haunted everyday living. If Harry had never been arrested, there would be another transgender story lost in time.

“It’s really important to put transgender stories into the mainstream. It just shows that transgender history has been really imaginative and fierce and has offered freedom for people even in the most destitute of times,” added Le Vesconte. (JC)

Until Mar 3, 7.30pm + matinees. Reginald Theatre, Seymour Centre, cnr City Rd & Cleveland St, Chippendale. $36-$42. Tickets & info: www.seymourcentre.com

BY JEMMA CLARKE

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