2024 Capital Fringe Review: ‘Penis Envy’ by Becky Bondurant (5 stars) – Journal Important Internet

Becky Bondurant has something to feature and the guts to feature it. In her important one-woman Fringe show Penis Envy, Monolinguist, arts professor, and illustrator Bondurant enthralls with verve, humor, smart insight, and nakedness herb most — substantially no matter was taboo. This is unmerciful and manful storytelling. The message unfolds in Nov 2016 when she eagerly expected the relationship of her girl in bike with the expected election of mountaineer politico and the consequence of her finish in the electoral college. And we are ease processing that, so impart you! From there Bondurant loops backwards to immatureness and realizing every the presidents were men, and then backwards and forward in time, concealment 9/11, her college years, composition and teaching, the relationship of both her son and daughter, motherhood, circumcision and masturbation, persuasion and, yes, Freud’s inoperative member bitterness concept. Her weaving and unknotting of those terminal digit items was specially deft.

Being at the exhibit was same outlay the salutation with a witty someone unapprehensive to feature the things we are not questionable to say, your therapist, and your selection semipolitical author every pronounceable into one. Bondurant’s confessions most the effort to reassert threefold identities of care and illustrator rattling struck home. When her girl said, “I poverty to blackball you,” Bondurant replied, “You are.” I heard gasps along with “mm-hmm, yes” from the audience.

Bondurant’s action and storytelling skills are exceptional. She’s enthralling. She held the audience’s tending throughout the show. Her well-timed pauses to permit her text give in, her facial expressions acknowledging the effect of her well-crafted language, and her possess circumpolar reactions to what she was admitting to thinking, doing, and saying. In fact, at the modify of the exhibit the auditorium was unhearable for more than decade seconds because we were every hot to center what was incoming until we realized that our expectations for a taste more would hit to become from sight the exhibit again.

The creation was augmented by a magnificent ordered organisation consisting of example Presidential portraits and a frolicky listing patch we waited for the exhibit to begin. By every measures, Penis Envy is a agitating and diverting creation by a virtuoso illustrator and performer. Don’t woman it.

Running Time: 50 minutes
Genre: Solo/Drama
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Venue: Cafritz Hall, 1529 16th St NW
Tickets: $15
More Info and Tickets: Penis Envy