Short description:
“This Body, This Fruit” is a solo performance in 3 acts: a narrative journey built from poetry bringing the audience into, through, and out of the rage, sorrow, despair, revelation, awakening, and joy of transness.
Longer:
A one-person show in three acts, “This Body, This Fruit” is a singular journey through gender transition / revelation. Deeply emotional and personal yet inclusive, the play wrestles with bodily and spiritual questions faced by every human, while embracing transgender lives in all their complexity, sorrow, and joy. The work engages viewers and asks them questions about their own lives, whatever their gender(s), as it moves through the prismatic doors of a lifelong pilgrimage toward the self.
(The world premiere was July 8th-14th at the Phoenix Theater in Minneapolis.)
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About the Play
Length and accessibilityLength of play is approximately 55 minutes, with no intermissions.
Potential accessibility concerns:
- Face masks are not required, but you are highly encouraged to wear them for your own and others’ safety.
- Some periods of relatively complete darkness.
- Instances of colored light and one or more brief flashes of light. If this is an accessibility issue for you, please contact us and we can talk about ways to let you know when/where it will happen.
- Some projected text will not be available other than visually.
- No ASL interpretation provided for this production.
- One loud and potentially startling sound effect.
Please contact the Minnesota Fringe Festival directly for any other accessibility questions related to the venue.
Content Advisory
What to expect (small spoilers)This play is emotionally heavy in some places (as is being a trans person in the world). There are specific and somewhat graphic references to murders of Black trans women. There are a few instances of explicit language (‘tits,’ ‘cunt,’ ‘fucks’ (as an epithet, not a verb)). There are a couple places with suggestive gestures/motions. Overall, probably less explicit than many PG-13 movies, but please remember that live theatre can be more impactful than images on screens.
Proceeds (world premiere)
Where money went“This Body, This Fruit” was written and produced on Dakota land. A portion of the proceeds from our world premiere was donated to the Minnesota Indian Women’s Resource Center (MIWRC) in acknowledgment of the debt we all owe our Native relatives.A portion of the proceeds from our world premiere was also donated to TIGERRS (Transgender, Intersex, Gender-Expansive Revolutionary Resources & Services) in support of the work they do for the community.Sponsors & Supporters (world premiere)
Gratitude for all those providing material support for the premiere 🙏🏼Our world premiere at the Phoenix Theater in July 2026 was supported by sponsors and boosters including:
Production Team (world premiere)
the original motley crew ❤️🔥- Writer, Director, Performer, Producer – Davi Gray (she/they) is a queer, trans, nonbinary poet, writer, performer, multihyphenate artist, activist, and abolitionist. They live in Bde Óta Othúŋwe (Minneapolis) on unceded Dakhóta lands.
Davi has work published in Poetry magazine, Water~Stone Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, NonBinary Review, #EnbyLife, and elsewhere, and can often be found performing around the Twin Cities. You can find more on Davi and her work at DaviGray.com.
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Stage Manager – Zach Goldberg (he/him) is a writer, educator, and arts organizer from Durham, NC. He’s worked as a stage manager and arts educator with several organizations in the Twin Cities and California’s Bay Area. Currently, he serves as the Technology and Salesforce Administrator at the Loft Literary Center and co-produces BuckSlam (Herd That!), a monthly poetry slam at Indeed Brewing.
- Associate Director – Caitlin Lowans (they/she)
- Associate Director – Isabel Nelson (she/they)
- Lighting and Sound Designer – Kevin Miller (he/him)
- Costume and Set Design Consultant; Publicist; Stagehand – Mallory Cina (she/her)
- Make Up Artist – Kao Vang (she/her)
- Assistant Publicist – Cecily McMillan (all pronouns)
- Roustabout – Erika Thorne (she/her)
- Writer, Director, Performer, Producer – Davi Gray (she/they) is a queer, trans, nonbinary poet, writer, performer, multihyphenate artist, activist, and abolitionist. They live in Bde Óta Othúŋwe (Minneapolis) on unceded Dakhóta lands.