Big Mouth Thunder Thighs at Stone Cottage -- The Addison Performing Arts Centre

Big Mouth Thunder Thighs: A Solo Vaudeville

By Bess Welden

Women are constantly bombarded with messages from inside and out about how they could be thinner, prettier, quieter, better....Well at a certain point ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!

There comes a time to deal with your inner critic so you can walk proudly through the world no matter what anyone else might say.

Plus, sometimes the best way to deal with tragedy is comedy-and how women are treated is a TRAGEDY!

So come laugh with us!

This play is a solo vaudeville about body and food that intertwines memoir storytelling with a highly-theatrical, unpredictable, and outrageously entertaining variety show featuring: a trash-talking puppet, stand-up comedy, singing, dancing, spoken word poetry, plus five “Death-Defying Acts.”

It’s an endearingly funny one-woman extravaganza about how we deal with our inner critics and what it takes for us to accept ourselves.

Rated PG-13 for language.

We love this show and what it says about diet culture and body image. In an age of MAHA and GLPs, we feel it is ever more important to laugh at ourselves and emphasize the point that all bodies are different. This is a funny, sometimes bittersweet, and ultimately heartbreaking look at how a society fixated on health and healthy bodies causes all of us to question what a healthy body actually looks like.