None of Us is Yet a Robot: Five Performances on Gender Identity and the Politics of Transition
'Draws on a vital history of trans performance – an emerging canon that may no longer be ignored.' – Morgan M Page, from her foreword

Seven turbulent years. Five radical performances. One landmark publication.

None of Us is Yet a Robot charts artist and performer Emma Frankland's gender transition against a shifting social and political landscape, while grappling with the systematic erasure of trans history.

Richly illustrated with images from the performances and designed in close collaboration with the author, the book is a new experience in itself as well as a vital document of Emma's groundbreaking work in theatre.

Featuring introductions from foremost theatre practitioners, including Maddy Costa and Travis Alabanza, this collection of work is an evocative exploration of a trans experience in twenty-first century Britain.

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None of Us is Yet a Robot: Five Performances on Gender Identity and the Politics of Transition
'Draws on a vital history of trans performance – an emerging canon that may no longer be ignored.' – Morgan M Page, from her foreword

Seven turbulent years. Five radical performances. One landmark publication.

None of Us is Yet a Robot charts artist and performer Emma Frankland's gender transition against a shifting social and political landscape, while grappling with the systematic erasure of trans history.

Richly illustrated with images from the performances and designed in close collaboration with the author, the book is a new experience in itself as well as a vital document of Emma's groundbreaking work in theatre.

Featuring introductions from foremost theatre practitioners, including Maddy Costa and Travis Alabanza, this collection of work is an evocative exploration of a trans experience in twenty-first century Britain.

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None of Us is Yet a Robot: Five Performances on Gender Identity and the Politics of Transition

None of Us is Yet a Robot: Five Performances on Gender Identity and the Politics of Transition

by Emma Frankland
None of Us is Yet a Robot: Five Performances on Gender Identity and the Politics of Transition

None of Us is Yet a Robot: Five Performances on Gender Identity and the Politics of Transition

by Emma Frankland

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'Draws on a vital history of trans performance – an emerging canon that may no longer be ignored.' – Morgan M Page, from her foreword

Seven turbulent years. Five radical performances. One landmark publication.

None of Us is Yet a Robot charts artist and performer Emma Frankland's gender transition against a shifting social and political landscape, while grappling with the systematic erasure of trans history.

Richly illustrated with images from the performances and designed in close collaboration with the author, the book is a new experience in itself as well as a vital document of Emma's groundbreaking work in theatre.

Featuring introductions from foremost theatre practitioners, including Maddy Costa and Travis Alabanza, this collection of work is an evocative exploration of a trans experience in twenty-first century Britain.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781786826459
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 08/05/2019
Pages: 224
Product dimensions: 5.40(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Emma Frankland is an award winning writer, theatre maker and performer, whose work is often described as playfully destructive, and gloriously irreverent.

Over the past decade, Emma's status has been established as a prominent and innovative theatre artist, whose work has been focussed on issues around gender identity and politically motivated performances.

She has written five solo shows, which were published by Methuen in 2019 as a collected volume "None of Us is Yet a Robot - Five Performances on Gender Identity and the Politics of Transition."

In 2023 she co-adapted John Lyly's classic play Galatea which was performed as part of Brighton Festival and is published by Bloomsbury.

She is Deputy Chair of the board for Selina Thompson Limited and has given consultancy on trans equality issues for many organisations.

Most recently she has written for Channel 4's iconic continuing drama Hollyoaks.

Emma also works as an actor and has appeared onstage at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre and Stratford East Theatre Royal and in multiple roles for BBC radio and television.

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