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Mawaan Rizwan: Gender Neutral Concubine Pirate PRESS RELEASE: The Invisible Dot Ltd. presents ID 492: MAWAAN RIZWAN: GENDER NEUTRAL CONCUBINE PIRATE Comedy's most seductive idiot returns to Edinburgh Fringe Festival with a madcap, part stand-up, part clowning confessional show. VENUE: Laughing Horse @ Dropkick Murphys (Venue 289), 7 Merchant St (off Candlemaker Row) !! EH1 2QD "BBC3 favourite Mawaan Rizwan is a mischievous performer, DATE: 5 – 28 August 2016 (not 15) with a no-holds-barred TIME: 5.15pm physicality & high-wattage charm" - The Guardian TICKETS: FREE FRINGE BOX OFFICE / MORE INFO: www.theinvisbledot.com | (NO BOOKING: FREE FRINGE) Slut-dropping, gender-bending comic Mawaan Rizwan enters the stage in a sparkly pirate dress. Occupying a dangerous yet enticing space between established rules and respectability, a space where the laws of two different territories are unclear or inapplicable, Mawaan’s glam-rock pirate alter-ego rejects mainstream identities in this brand-new hour. Combining anecdotes about cycling through the city naked, impersonations of inanimate objects like trampolines, giving birth to a bottle of wine, a musical interlude about baby wipes, Gender Neutral Concubine Pirate galvanizes Mawaan’s reputation as an absurdist, cheeky, eccentric geezer with a subversive performance style. Following his BBC documentary How Gay is Pakistan? in which he investigated life for gay and transgender people in his family’s country, Mawaan is making a name for himself as a prominent British-Asian LGBT activist. His most recent credits include television drama Murdered By My Father (BBC 3) and Vera (ITV). Mawaan shot to fame with his online sketches (youtube.com/Mawaan), which attracted 20 million hits and 100k subscribers. He also co- stars in the hit CBBC comedy show DNN, nominated for a Children’s Bafta. This is Mawaan’s third Edinburgh Fringe Festival show following FLUU (2015) and Haus of Chi Chi (2014).! “Masterful and supremely hilarious stupidity” – Total Theatre "He strips away the bravado and machismo associated with typical male comedians, subverting them not with a female or transvestite voice, but one that is devoid of gender. He points towards a world where comedy can, in fact, be gender neutral." – EQ View Notes to the Editor Contact and to reserve seats: Daniel King (freelance) | [email protected] | 077 7208 1915 Images are downloadable here: https://goo.gl/oPbKgp Twitter: @MawaanR / #ConcubinePirate | YouTube: youtube.com/Mawaan The Invisible Dot Ltd. 2 Northdown Street, London. N1 9BG. Twitter: @theinvisibledot Website: http://www.theinvisibledot.com/ !.
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