Sian Ni Mhuirí is the writer and producer of a new play 'Aunty Ben' starring one of Ireland's most renowned drag queens 'Veda'.
Aunty Ben is a play about over coming adversity, where a young girl, Tracy, brings her school friends home to meet her “Aunty Ben”, not realising that having an uncle who wears dresses and imitates celebrities for a living is not what Irish society would consider the norm.
Sian says that people might say that children are too young to be exposed to this kind of talk but the truth is that they are taught gender roles since before primary school.
She says that before many children know what gay means, they often use it as an insult - this play is hoping to curb that.
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