Fancy something different? Then check out Midgitte Bardot’s (great name!) new show, Shooting From Below at London’s Southbank Centre’s Purcell Room from April 9th -11th. Midgitte Bardot, aka artist Tamm Reynolds, explores just who is really dwarfing whom.

For centuries, performance has been written into dwarf bones without consent. They are local celebrities with little power wherever they go, from the mines to the palace courts and from the cabaret to the big screen. In modern times, they’ve frequently been a fixture at performing arts institutions, and it’s in a setting such as this that Bardot claims her right to get even. With Shooting From Below, audiences are set to find out what happens when a dwarf star is gaslit to the point of combustion.

With a healthy dose of subversion, Bardot questions why she seeks violence and what might happen if the little guys get the upper hand. As well, she muses on what a land might look like if designed and ruled by Midgittes and whether non-dwarves could perhaps end up on their knees…. All of this and more is delivered in an hour-long show utilising the artist’s signature take on musical theatre, live art, movement and drag. The name Midgitte is pronounced ‘midge-eat’ as opposed to the slur still used against a community who continue to be mocked and harassed by the public and mainstream media.

Tamm Reynolds makes live-art, text-based work and music and is adept at the art of piss-taking. They’re a speech writer and giver, only ever punching upwards as they address themes of power dynamics, absurdist social commentary, and the pressing issue of small dogs playing with big dogs.

They started performing as their drag alter-ego, Midgitte Bardot in 2014 and, since then, have made the refusal to be slighted on stages into an art form across the UK and beyond.

Midgitte says “Not all people without dwarfism are under the presumption that people with dwarfism are there for entertainment as pets, toys, fetishes, dream sequences, musical numbers… just most.” 

Sounds like a fun show!