Burgerz

Name: Burgerz
Start: 2026-01-07 18:45:00+11:00
End: 2026-01-18 14:00:00+11:00
Location: Carriageworks

Travis Alabanza

United Kingdom

Burgers and bile with a side of blistering bite.

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Australian Exclusive Carriageworks

Winner of the Total Theatre Award at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, BURGERZ has been a sell-out sensation across the world since 2018. 

After someone threw a burger at them and shouted a transphobic slur, performance artist Travis Alabanza became obsessed with burgers. How they are made, how they feel, and smell. How they travel through the air. How the mayonnaise feels on your skin. This hilarious and heartbreaking show explores how trans people survive and reclaims an act of violence with a side of serious bite. 

Since the debut of BURGERZ, Alabanza has received international critical acclaim and numerous awards as an author, playwright, and performer.  

2026 marks 10 years since that burger slid off Travis's face on London's Waterloo Bridge. Come hear a story that remains painfully timely, unsettling and powerful – a triumphant response that has taken Alabanza all around the world.

★★★★★ “A piece that gets under your skin”

BRITISH THEATRE

★★★★ “Very funny... Alabanza is sassy and witty”

THE GUARDIAN

Theatre

Travis Alabanza

United Kingdom

Travis is a writer, performer and theatre maker from Bristol. For stage, Travis wrote and performed in their debut show Burgerz which won the Total Theatre Award at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, sold out at Southbank Centre and Traverse Theatre and toured internationally. Their latest theatre commission, Sound of the Underground, premiered as part of the Royal Court's new season in 2023 to critical acclaim. Travis currently has a new show for stage in development with the Southbank Centre and Hackney Showrooms, and their project PUSH THE BUTTON is in development with Green Door Theatre in Australia. For screen, Travis is developing projects with Lookout Point and See Saw. Travis' debut book None of the Above: Reflections on Life Beyond the Binary was published in 2022 by Canongate and in the US by Feminist Press in 2023. It was listed in TIME Magazine's 100 books of 2023. Their work has also earned them a place on Forbes’ 30 Under 30 list 2021, the Dazed100 list and in 2023 as an Evening Standard's future stars of stage and screen.

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