Disability Inclusion Events

Two Come Home
Friday 23 January, 7pm
Lakeside Theatre

It’s winter in a small, isolated town in the Appalachian mountains. Ex-con and recovered addict Evan lives a simple and solitary existence until some old ghosts return to unbury a decade’s worth of pain.

Direct from an acclaimed off-west end run at The Cockpit Theatre, having received 5-star reviews and a whopping seven Fringe Theatre Award nominations, Two Come Home is an unflinching tale of poverty, addiction, and homophobia. A unique combination of true crime, romance, and family drama all set to a haunting live soundtrack.

A Two Woman Hamlet
Wednesday28 - Thursday 29 January, 7.30pm
Lakeside Theatre

It’s Hamlet, but not as you know it. Two women (and a skull) take on 23 roles between them in 60 minutes, in a spectacularly fun and surprisingly moving theatrical event. This is an unpretentious adaptation, with joys in it for those familiar with Hamlet and those new to the story.

Following the critical success of the original production by Sherman and Friends at the Capitol Fringe (Washington, DC, 2018) and Edinburgh Fringe (2022), The Yorickans developed a fresh take on this irreverent adaptation for a sold-out run at Colchester’s Lakeside Theatre in March 2025.

The team then took the show on tour, performing at the Camden and Colchester Fringe Festivals and the Wickham Theatre in Bristol last year. The Yorickans are delighted to bring the show back to its home turf, now with the two original principal actors (Sharmila Peake and Deanna Strasse) switching over to the other track.

Fun, fast-paced and with a feminist heart, A Two Woman Hamlet is truly a different show with every performance!

A History of “Mayhem and Regress”: Black LGBT Lives and the Colonial Structuring of Rights in Brazil with Lucas de Souza Oliveira
Thursday 5 February, 4.00pm - 5.30pm
Room 6.345

This seminar outlines my research trajectory, connecting my completed Master’s dissertation and my ongoing doctoral project. Set within a Brazilian context shaped by the modern/colonial world order and guided by the national motto “order and progress”, my work adopts an epistemological approach that centres those embodying “mayhem and regress” in this society: Black LGBT people living in favelas. My Master’s research examined the ADPF das Favelas, a case brought before the Federal Supreme Court which addressed police violence in Rio de Janeiro as a persistent breach of Brazil’s constitutional principles. Drawing on Black and LGBT decolonial thought, I explored how the case’s legal reasoning aligns - or fails to align - with the lived realities of Black LGBT residents of favelas. Noting how these lives remain largely unacknowledged even within this ostensibly progressive case, my doctoral research turns to the Supreme Court’s criminalisation of “homotransphobia”. Through analysing the Court’s interpretation of “race”, I argue that the legal framing of LGBTphobia as a form of “social racism”, while celebrated as progressive, paradoxically reinforces colonial racial hierarchies and the marginalisation of Black LGBT people.