Other tongues

MontrealMirror.com – Andrea Zanin

Trans performer Lazlo Pearlman gets naked with language and gender at the Edgy Women Festival

“I found out that in French, cock—la bite—is female, and vagina—le vagin—is male… and a piece was born.” So says Lazlo Pearlman, a London, U.K.-based female-to-male transgender performance artist whose solo piece, Madame Pierre’s Other Tongue, will enjoy its world premiere at this year’s edition of Studio 303’s Edgy Women Festival. The piece is a multilingual, gender-blurred work he describes as “a surreal cabaret about cunning linguists.”