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# REVIEW: ‘Spit It Out’ at Rotunda Theatre (Brighton Fringe)
- URL: https://www.scenemag.co.uk/review-spit-it-out-at-rotunda-theatre-brighton-fringe/
- Published: 2024-05-28T16:37:16.000Z
- Updated: 2024-05-28T16:37:16.000Z
- Description: Adam – trans actress Willow MacDonald – takes us on their journey to be Emily in Alice K Stephens’ searingly honest coming-out play Spit It Out. Willow is quiet, unassuming and mesmerisingly honest in their portrayal of the fast-food server who wants to dress as a woman but initially proclaims they
- Author: Brian Butler
- Tags: Brighton Fringe, Brighton

Adam – trans actress **Willow MacDonald** – takes us on their journey to be Emily in **Alice K Stephens**’ searingly honest coming-out play ***Spit It Out***.

Willow is quiet, unassuming and mesmerisingly honest in their portrayal of the fast-food server who wants to dress as a woman but initially proclaims they are “just a gay man”.

This reticence, faced with a multitude of phobias in the workplace and at Adam’s auntie’s house, don’t make this life journey easy.

Supported by a trio of actors – **Joe Eason**, **Jamie Coenen** and **Isobel Sheard** – who play all the other characters we meet, Willow shines through in this rare portrayal on stage of trans dreams and desires, enacted by a trans performer.

Adam/Emily’s confusion and uncertainty are grippingly real and **Noah Alfred Pantano**’s direction is sharp, quick and uncompromising.

Moving to a confident and hopeful ending is just what we needed in this must-watch show.

Let’s have some more trans stories and more trans performers on our stages.

***Spit It Out* was at Rotunda Theatre as part of Brighton Fringe.**