José Arroyo in Conversation with…. Adam Carver/ Fatt Butcher

Adam Carver is a Midlands-based producer, performer and cultural activist. He was recently Festival Director for SHOUT and is producer for Ginny Lemon's Palaver. I saw the great Fantabulosa show they did at the Birmingham Museum and Gallery just before lockdown, a thrilling queer positive performance piece for children and family audiences. I wanted to talk to him to find out how lockdown had affected him personally as a performer and also on: queer arts in the Midlands, the infrastructure for live performance in Birmingham and his own transgressive transformation into Fatt Butcher, a sublime and edgy transformation into drag that brings in Disco, Comedy, and Bingo whilst also being a political intervention against shame.