OVARIACTING: A Period Drama Comes to Melbourne International Comedy Festival
Ovariacting: A Period Drama, is a riotous and informative cabaret about periods and endometriosis, performed by Jamie Boiskin and her band of merry menstruals. Watch them fight period stigma with slut drops, tampon bullets and a RuPaul inspired uterus.
It's 2019. You'd think we'd be able to talk about periods without being weird by now. A hit at the Melbourne Cabaret Festival in 2018,Ovariacting is a timely show that aligns with the Australian government's recent pledge of $4.5 million dollars to increase endometriosis awareness, education and research. About frigging time! Jamie, a music theatre performer who is frankly riddled with endo and barely contained crankiness at the medical profession, is joined by menstrual activist protégé Rainer Pollard on piano, drag queen uterus Laganja (Alice Albon) and T.O.M the Time of the Month Tampon (Louise Cumming).
Ovariacting, directed by Fiona Scott-Norman, is an hour packed with fabulous costumes, songs, props, and bloody performance art. Inspired by Jamie's journey with endo, polycystic ovarian syndrome, her cranky uterus, and a heinous 35 day long period, Ovariacting is a masterclass in how to talk about normal bodily functions without pulling a face and saying "She's got the painters in".
On point and right on time, Ovariacting is a cabaret which enrols men as allies, highlights the true cost of silence, and fires tampons at the audience from modified nerf guns. Aimed at women, and everyone who knows one.
Ovariacting: A Period Drama opens on Monday 1st of April until Sunday 7th of April at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. Bookings highly recommended.
Dates and times: 5:30pm, 1st-7th April
Tickets: Adult, Concession, Tightarse Tuesday,
Venue: The Butterfly Club
Tickets: https://thebutterflyclub.com/show/ovariacting-a-period-drama
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