Boy Stroke Girl

Can you fall in love with someone if you don't know their gender?  
 
Peter is about to find out when he falls for the sexually ambiguous ‘Blue’. 
 
Their relationship poses a challenge to Peter’s identity, forcing him to face some difficult questions: To what extent are we all encouraged to conform to narrow culturally defined stereotypes, to label and to pigeon-hole ourselves?

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Are these labels a form of straight jacket, by adapting to them do we compromise our true nature and can we defy the ultimate label of gender? Does this pressure to conform inevitably give rise to derision and hatred towards those who by choice or inclination, stand outside society's norms?
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Casting caution to the wind, Peter’s passion for Blue provokes prejudice and hostility from friends and family in a tale of sexual liberation and shattered taboos.
 
Written & Directed by Ian Dixon Potter. Performed by Ilaria Ciardelli, Thomasin Lockwood, Gianbruno Spena & Duncan Mason.

Five Star Review of BOY STROKE GIRL by Kat Caunter for LondonTheatre1:
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"Boy Stroke Girl is perfectly written so as to keep the audience guessing. This allows for the questioning of your own thought process at the same time the characters are questioning theirs."
​"The actors portray the androgyny of Blue to perfection, as there is not one point in their acting that leads to any confirmed thought that Blue is either a boy or a girl."
​"The set of Boy Stroke Girl was simple yet beautiful. Everything allowed every aspect of the play to flow with perfect fluidity."
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Review of BOY STROKE GIRL by Rosie Snell for Scatter of Opinion:
​“A truly stimulating piece of theatre, that will leave you double checking yourself every time you supply stereotypical, sticky labels to a friend or foe."
​"A production which complicates and liberates ideas of conventional human behaviour."
​"Ian Dixon Potter’s, Boy Stroke Girl follows the self driven campaign of one young individual, Blue; who defies conventional behaviour and fights against labels."
​"Powerful and unique, Peter and Blue’s relationship sees two people falling in love without constraints from gender. Attraction is formed from personality alone. The focus of this production and main message is don’t judge, take a person for who they are rather than what they are. Where they are going rather than where they’ve been."