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Read my full review in The Daily Beast.
An excerpt:
From the opening moments of the musical—where she’s not waiting in the wings, but rather bounding up and down the aisles to greet audience members while wearing angelic wings—to a closing singalong where Mulvaney proclaims she’s a woman born in a gay man’s body who isn’t completely gay but still remains a woman, she is shining in this spotlight.
In between, she recounts how as young as age 4, she’d already told her conservative Catholic mother that she was meant to be a girl; how her own relationship with God and her best friend changed as she attended Catholic school in San Diego; and how everything in her life turned upside-down when she gained fame and infamy as a social-media influencer.
“Turns out late-stage capitalism and misogyny was responsible for my demise,” she quips onstage late in the show.
Dylan Mulvaney “FAGHAG” plays at Assembly George Square Studios during the 2024 Edinburgh Fringe
