Follow the emotional journey of Adam

The true story of a young transgender man is heading to Stirling next month.

Adam has been impressing audiences at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this summer, and will visit the Macrobert Arts Centre on September 5 and 6.

The show is the remarkable tale of a young trans man and his journey to reconciliation - with himself, those closest to him, and the world as he knows it.

From Egypt to Scotland, it charts Adam’s fight across borders and genders to find a place to call home.

Adam is performed by Adam Kashmiry and Neshla Caplan. Adam is the real person on whom the drama is based and this is his professional stage debut.

He was born into a girl’s body in Egypt, but always knew that he was really a boy. In a deeply conservative society, Adam had no words to describe this feeling.

In a place where falling in love with the wrong person can get you killed, he had to escape. Fleeing the country alone, Adam finds himself in a tiny room in Glasgow on the edge of despair.

He manages to get online and ask the question: “Can the soul of a boy be trapped in the body of a girl?”What followed was beyond Adam’s wildest dreams. A catalyst to begin the epic journey for the right to change his body, to the boy he knows himself to be.

The show is directed by award-winning theatre director Cora Bissett (co-creator of Glasgow Girls, Rites and Roadkill and director of Room) with music composed by Jocelyn Pook (Stage Works British Composer Award winner in 2012 for her soundtrack to DESH) and written by playwright Frances Poet.

Featuring a score sung by a virtual choir of trans and non-binary individuals from across the world who will be projected onto the stage, Adam is both a bold exploration of the experience of a young transgender person and an ambitious experiment with theatrical form, blending storytelling, classical composition and mass digital elements from participants from around the globe.