By the time she arrives in Dubbo on Saturday June 15, Cassie Workman will have already received multiple awards for her latest work which is currently gathering rave reviews as it tours across the country.
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'Giantess', the show in question, is being billed as a unique blend of live performance, music and multimedia art.
While most might recognise Workman from her appearances as stand-up comic on shows like Tonightly and her work as a writer on Mad as Hell, this kind of a unique blend of theatre, comedy and art is well-trodden ground for the rising comedy star.
"The show is foremost a comedy show, but it also has some depth and it's a narrative show, it's a story from start to finish," Workman said.
"Usually in a first show, I'll do a mixture of genres, so this is well-trodden ground, doing mixed media and cartooning and all sorts of things."
The show, which melds fantastical elements as it tells a 'fable for big kids' about a young girl kidnapped by trolls, functions as an allegorical tale that draws on elements from Workman's own life.
"I have a history of telling moral parables and I find that if you engage with symbolism and sort of fairytale elements you speak to a more innocent version of the audience, a less critical version, which can allow you to get your ideas past the goalkeeper, so to speak, without people becoming too jaded."
"Then you can affect real change in a person, because you're speaking on an emotional level not an intellectual level."
"It's emotionally taxing to do the show again and again and again and re-open some of those things again and again, but this is a show that's written for other people and not just for me, and a lot of the people who come to see the show have had similar experiences and it can be quite moving," Workman said.
"Most people have never met a transgender person so to efficiently make people understand what this experience is like, you have to make people relate to that experience and make them understand that way."
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