Eddie Izzard in Regina

What a perfect way to spend a night during my class in Saskatoon on gendered spaces than the go see comedian Eddie Izzard, an executive Transvestite from Wales. Yemen. Doesn’t matter.

If you don’t know Eddie Izzard, you are missing out a great gender bending experience. Even when Eddie is not dressed in heels, he has a great sense of style that is matched by his strong opinions of religion, gender and language and excellent mimetic skills.

I was very interested in the variety of people that were attending the Eddie Izzard concert. I saw dreadlocks and Mohawks, a strong homosexual representation and some wonderful gender inappropriate dress mixed in with a strong heterosexual crowd. It is hard to find people who enjoy Eddie Izzard so it was nice to see a mixed crowd within the boundaries of one space.

The Conexus Center and the mix of gendered identities within the space seemed to clash, mostly because of the architecture of the space. While the theatre itself is built to mutate identities from production to production, the space holds stuffy bourgeoisie architecture, designed for upper class events and convenient customer flow. The lobby space reeked more of whiskey on the rocks and martinis than beer and held a certain patriarichal dominance that always makes me awkward in community auditoriums.

I don’t want to say much more, I think in this case the comedian’s opinion of gender speaks for itself.

See Eddie's Cake or Death skit here