Titi Lee: “Good Girl Gone Baddie” at Edinburgh Fringe 2024

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Lee’s debut solo hour packs an emotional punch, reframing their journey as a first-gen identical twin of Taiwanese parents through song-and-dance numbers, an onstage costume change revealing their pandemic boobs, and a closing drag number paying homage to their late brother.

It’s a lot to take in. But TIti Lee has a lot to share on top of the usual experiences from immigrant kids.

Having a twin sister who’s a musician also has Titi wondering about their place in the world, but deftly softens the darker tones of their hour with their own son about being OK with “the B in me.” Whether that’s being a B student, or having the B stand for bisexuality. Lee jokes about the irony of Taiwanese culture being obsessed with being number one in your country in student testing, only to realize when you leave that your country is not even considered a country. Lee has their own identity issues to work through, too, and jokes about coming out to their father as nonbinary after having gotten breast implants. Lee’s dating and sexual history might not seem so out of place for the Millennial and Gen Z crowds, but Lee nevertheless has more questions to ponder seeing their friends having kids in the pandemic, and wondering what it means to be nonbinary while engaged to a man and wanting to have kids of their own. And not have additional panic attacks about it all.

Some of those answers may have to wait. Just let Lee enjoy their “Baddie” phase, because we could all use a dance party right about now.

Titi Lee “Good Girl Gone Baddie” plays at Just The Tonic at Cabaret Voltaire during the 2024 Edinburgh Fringe

Sean L. McCarthy

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