It might just be the most timely one-woman show we can imagine coming across on International Women’s Day.
This month, UBC BFA Acting alumna Joylyn Secunda returns to campus with her “comic exploration of asexuality,” The Moaning Yoni. (The word yoni, for the XYs among us, is the Sanskrit word for the vulva as a sacred space.)
According to the press release, “The Moaning Yoni is like a millennial Alice in Wonderland, but instead of tripping down the rabbit hole, she slips headfirst into her own vagina.”
Secunda, who graduated from UBC in 2016, has already toured the show to the Toronto Fringe and Victoria Fringe.
Exploring “the intersection of gender, sexuality, and spirituality through physical comedy, song, dance and switching seamlessly between 18 different characters,” the plot follows a college student’s attempts to fit in. That is until “her anthropomorphic vagina takes over her mind in a yoni-healing circle.”
“From Tinder to Tantra they cross a sexual battlefield in a psychedelic journey.” No kidding.
The Moaning Yoni runs March 19 and 22 at UBC’s Dorothy Somerset Theatre. Tickets are $10, cash only at the door. This show contains mature language and sexual themes. Rated 18+.
