BASIC BALD B*TCH
Hair is everything. Until it’s not. Until it’s 2007 Britney b*tch.
A one-hour, one-woman, one-night stand of a show all about Amy. Because everyone wants to be Amy. Until her hair starts falling out in all of the wrong places.
What follows is a knotty mess of swimming caps, cat shit and four-finger foreheads. Things buried threaten to rear their ugly bald head. She doesn’t want to remember. But she can’t stop thinking about the door. Her bedroom door. And the man hiding behind it.
Now Amy attempts to take back her body, one fake eyebrow at a time.
Using drag and comedy, BASIC BALD B*TCH explores desire, sexuality and the lengths we go to hide who we really are.
Inspired by my experiences of having alopecia and navigating the aftermath of an assault. This is a story for anyone who has felt afraid to be seen.
JOURNEY
Brixton House
In September 2024, the show was part of a 1 week work-in-progress festival at Brixton House, London. Find out more here.
Edinburgh Fringe Festival
In August 2026, the show had its first official production in Edinburgh for the Fringe with iconic venue Underbelly. Find out more here.
CREATIVES
Writer & Performer Emily Glaze
Director Sarah Stacey
Dramaturg Maddie Beautyman
Photography by Charlie Flint
Methuen Drama
Alongside the Edinburgh Fringe run, the script was published by Bloomsbury Methuen Drama. Copies of the playtext our available to buy from The National Theatre Bookshop and will soon be made available to buy via this website. Do get in touch for more information.
Press
As featured in BBC News, Edinburgh Evening News, Edinburgh News, The Queer Review and many more. The show continues conversations around beauty standards, body image and gender roles and expectations.
General Manager Wild Geese Productions
Set & Costume Designer Anna Kelsey
Sound Designer Raffaela Pancucci
Lighting Designer Catja Hamilton
Movement Director Paige-Marie Baker-Carroll
Stage Manager Lauren Lambert Moore
BELLA BALDID
SOHO THEATRE
DRAG LAB 2024
CREATIVE TEAM
Writer and Performer Emily Glaze
Directors Len Blanco & Me The Drag Queen
Photographer Ivy Corbin
When news articles featuring Bella Hadid wearing a bald cap referred to her as an AI alien robot, I knew I wanted to write something about it.
Someone being bald is often the first thing used to shock people, or it’s the monster in films, or it’s to point at for comedy.
This cabaret performance BELLA BALDID was inspired by this media frenzy and the idea that through drag, clown and comedy I can reclaim these differences.
THE CONDITION
Writer Emily Glaze
Cast Rhys Quilley and Claudia Floodgate
GRADUATE SHOWREEL
MUTE
Writer Emily Glaze
Cast Sophie Cartman
’There is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind’ - Virginia Woolf
Handpicked from over 1000 submissions and then commissioned by Popelei.
READINGS, SCRATCH NIGHTS, FESTIVALS & SHORT FILMS
In the Room (scratch night) at The Jack Studio, Brockley Jack 2024
Becky with the Good Hair (R&D, shared reading) at Theatre503 2024
Becky with the Good Hair (festival) at The Kings Arms Manchester 2023
Becky with the Good Hair (scratch night) The Cockpit Theatre London 2023
Becky with the Good Hair (scratch night) The Bomb Factory Theatre 2021
I’ll Leave In The Morning (short film) 2023
Mute (festival) The Questors Theatre 2022
Mute (reading) The New Works Playhouse 2020