“Basically, at the end of the day I want queer people to walk out of my show and say: “F**k, I can just be me, and that’s more than enough,” says Rose Coogan, a wise-beyond-her-years trans comedian and playwright from Northern Ireland.

Rose has brought her funny and moving two-person play Rose + Bud to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe , and she took some time to sit down with PinkNews to discuss how she came up with the idea to portray herself in “two halves” on stage, and what a therapeutic experience it’s been.

“Rose + Bud started as a piece of stand up, a one-person show.” She explains. “The idea to bring Conor (Cupples) on board – who plays my younger, pre-transition self – developed after I started reading a lot of other plays at the time. One that resonated with me was Philadelphia He

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