A Trans Internet Rom-Com Musical Crashes Into The Old Fitz Theatre!

What happens when the internet’s most perfect trans influencer meets her biggest hater…and they fall in love?

After sold-out concert runs at Adelaide Cabaret Festival and Hayes Festival of New Work, A Transgender Woman on the Internet, Crying explodes onto the stage in a full-scale hyperpop musical at the Old Fitz Theatre.

Created by Cassie Hamilton, this riotous, high-octane lovers-to-enemies-to-lovers odyssey dives headfirst into stan culture, cancel culture and the impossible pressure of being “the right kind” of anything online. It’s sharp, it’s chaotic, it’s painfully funny, and it asks the gloriously messy question: What are trans people actually allowed to see themselves as?

Avis O’Hara (@theDIYDoll) is glossy, aspirational and internet-famous. Corrin Verbeck is a left-tube crusader determined to expose her as everything wrong with modern trans politics. But when Corrin infiltrates Avis’s world, the algorithm does what the algorithm does best: it gets complicated. Certainly not a tragedy, and definitely not a TED talk, this is a glitter-drenched hyperpop musical about projection, desire, clout-chasing and the deeply embarrassing vulnerability of falling in love with the person you subtweeted.Directed by Jean Tong (Flat Earthers: The Musical; Heartbreak High), with musical direction by Lillian Hearne, the production features a thrilling trans and gender- diverse cast including Cassie Hamilton (Satranic Panic), Blake Appelqvist (Fangirls; & Juliet), Rosie Rai and Teo Vergara.

Fierce and unapologetically online, A Transgender Woman on the Internet, Crying is a joyful provocation and a pop-musical fever dream that refuses to behave. Because sometimes the most radical thing a trans person can be…is messy.

For tickets and more information, visit the Old Fitz website.

Gabi Bergman

Gabi Bergman (she/her) is a Melbourne-based performer and educator, and the current Deputy Editor-in-Chief of AussieTheatre.com. She holds a double degree in Theatre Studies and Film/Screen Studies, along with a Master of Teaching (Secondary Education). A passionate advocate for inclusion and diversity in the arts, Gabi brings her deep love of storytelling to the stage, the page, and the classroom. A lifelong lover of theatre, she spends more on tickets than she’d like to admit. Her most prized possession is her ever-growing collection of theatre programs.