The Girl I Left Behind Me is a cool and contemporary look at one of the most intriguing aspects of musical theatre – just what is it that makes a woman in trousers so appealing?

Accompanied by a piano, mezzosoprano Jessica Walker dons a few well-chosen items of male attire, giving a supremely well-sung performance that conjures up an entire world, from the swaggering cross-dressers of the Victorian Music Hall to the ambiguous boy-heroes of Mozart and Strauss.

Provocative, flirtatious and personal, this one woman-guide deliciously recalls a forgotten chapter of female performance.

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