Brahamn/I, Aditi Brennan Kapil's play about a stand-up of ambiguous sexuality, ends up prisoner to its premise.
by Tony Adler
The title character of Aditi Brennan Kapil's Brahman/I is a stand-up comic of ambiguous sexuality—ambiguous, at least, insofar as Anglo-American norms are concerned, there being no viable "other" classification to round out "male" and "female." Born with bonus genitals, this Georgia-reared child of Indian immigrants (favored nickname "B") lived as a boy until puberty started working its magic on him, at which point he found himself opting for makeup and saris.…[ Read more ]