Suspect Device

Produced in partnership with Outburst Arts and Paperxclips, as part of ‘Are You On The Bus?’ 

Commissioned by Belfast 2024 and supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund.

Let us take you on a journey.

We’re not actually going anywhere.

We are on a bus though. Wilma’s bus.

Wilma was one of the first publicly trans women in Belfast.

In the 1970s, she drove the Bangor to Belfast Ulsterbus, navigating bomb-scares and bigotry, amongst the other troubles of her life.

In 1980, she battled to access the healthcare she needed, fighting a medical system designed by and for cis men.

Now, she’s the eternal bus driver – the ferrywoman of the queer underworld – taking the souls of some old friends and unlikely allies on one final journey across the river Lagan…

Join us on board as Wilma guides us through the divine muddy waters of identity and self acceptance. In doing so, she might just help our spectral passengers unpack their emotional baggage one last time.

Suspect Device is a thoughtful and disruptive exploration of the impacts of a patriarchal system, and the explosive potential of queer people and women to dismantle it.