Their shows caused mayhem. Now Tamm Reynolds \u2013 AKA Midgitte Bardot \u2013 is really going for the jugular, hitting back at prejudice with a wild new act <\/p>\n\n
Most performers want attention when they\u2019re on stage. Tamm Reynolds, however, gets it all the time \u2013 even when not dressed in fishnets and push-up bra as their alter ego, Midgitte Bardot. \u201cI also like having my bush and ass out,\u201d Reynolds adds. Before we meet at Woolwich station in London, where the artist has kindly agreed to pick me up in their car, they send me a text: \u201cI\u2019m assuming you know what I look like.\u201d Sure enough, they are hard to miss. As a non-binary trans drag queen with dwarfism, Reynolds must be in a minority of one.<\/p>\n
Yet to define Reynolds purely in those terms would be to do them a massive disservice, since they are also a writing and performance powerhouse. Three years ago, in Travis Alabanza\u2019s queer cabaret revue Sound of the Underground<\/a>, Midgitte climbed aboard a cherry-picker in order to sing a filthy blues rock tune called Hot Piss, brandishing a jug of frothy yellow liquid. The climax can\u2019t adequately be described in a family newspaper, but it resulted in the loudest cheer I\u2019ve ever heard at the Royal Court. Eat your heart out, Jerusalem.<\/p>\n
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