“Private Parts”: Sometimes You’ve Got to Fix What God Gave You
about 66 months ago (11/17/2018)
“Private Parts”: Sometimes You’ve Got to Fix What God Gave You Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles Photo courtesy of Michael Chiang Playthings November 17, 2018 By Eugene Tan (1720 words, six-minute read) This review contains some spoilers of a few of the sight gags and plot points in Private Parts . Private Parts was first performed in 1992, and in this staging, it hasn’t been re-written. Given that in it, transgender characters and the people around them attempt to articulate what being transgender means, how the rest of the world relates to trans folk, and vice versa, this creates a problem from the outset.