Liz Hodgkinson: 'Dr Dillon and Georgia'

Dr Dillon and Georgia: Two Monologues on Gender Re-Alignment and Other Adventures" was presented by Hungry Ghost Theatre in Dublin in mid Sep 06.

As a result of critical acclaim, a tour of England is being discussed.

In contemporary Manchester Georgia's a boy who wants to be a girl but meanwhile she's got to survive another seedy night imitating 80's punk icons and avoiding her Dad's fists.

In Dublin, fifty years before, aristocratic Michael Dillon's studying medicine at Trinity where no-one realises he used to be Laura and is the world's first surgical female to male transsexual.

Is Georgia just another sharp-tongued scally, suicidal rock star or elegant blonde whom love will tear apart? And is Michael a garage mechanic, Oxford Blue (Ladies Rowing) or Tibetan monk? And what happens when even changing your sex isn't enough to discover who you really are?

Hungry Ghost Theatre was founded by actor, writer and director Phil Kingston to make work that explores extremity, passion, freedom and difference. It aspires to create a rough poetry of word, movement and image.

Phil trained as an actor in London. After a brief conventional career he took ten years out to work as a storyteller in schools and train in the Western Buddhist Order.