“I heard if you use a tampon you lose your virginity”
Let’s get personal. Join us for a wacky, honest, and musical unpacking of our relationship with our vaginas and the things that come out of them. We talk periods, we talk bodies, we talk stigmas, we talk womanhood. Full of off-the-wall humour and down to earth truths, A Period Piece is a show that is for everyone.
Described as “two local female performers who have a very strong and defined perspective” (New Ottawa Critics), and “side-splittingly funny” (Apt613), Ottawa-based theatre company Spicy Day has been creating new, critically-acclaimed productions since 2016.
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Flowing freely and unselfconsciously, A PERIOD PIECE is a ruddy good show discharged with sanguinary panache. Male or female, you will squirm a bit, feel perhaps a little trickle between the thighs and – if you are woman – wonder, oh my god, is it time? Nothing defines womanhood more than the moon cycle of days leading up to and accompanying that spurt of blood and grab for the pad. Now, I don’t want to gush too much, but I really loved this show. Monica Bradford-Lea and Lauren Welchner are passionate, vulnerable (they’re wearing snug white pants!), and have cleverly and playfully plumbed the depths of the period pool of knowledge to turn up informative and heartbreaking facts from the multiple tributaries of women’s menstrual experiences. You will be caught up in their fun as they rage about being on the rag! You will also be asked for your period experience, with blood. No doubt the 2019 Fringe will be drenched in many warm and inspiring recollections of periods gone by, told by women who have seen this show, or are streaming toward its blushing portals. But be warned, no amount of wings will allow you to rise above laughing as you fondly recall the carnage of your menstrual daze. Full disclosure, I endured periods. But no more. And nothing that has been taken away in my life has given me more joy.