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Brighton Fringe 2014

Slut (R)evolution

Cameryn Moore

Genre: Stand-Up

Venue: Marlborough

Festival:

Low Down

 slut (r)evolution (no one gets there overnight)

Deftly merging memory and manifesto, slut (r)evolution explores incendiary events from Cameryn’s very sexual life. How did it feel? What the hell was I thinking? And how will it affect tonight’s hook-up?

Review

 Cameryn Moore’s second show in the Brighton Fringe is a more personal follow-up to Phone Whore, but delivered with the same confidence and stand-up panache.  Part confessional, part sexual agit-prop, part storytelling, part memoir she puts herself on the line with a clear and moving account of her sexual biography. It’s not a psychological evaluation, it’s a societal evaluation. She mentions in passing her Mormon childhood, and touches on the inevitable conflict that that brought,   but does not dwell on it or use it to explain or excuse her development, nor do I feel that she would welcome that kind of approach. She tells her story well and raw, with plenty of well delivered one liners and punch lines, so it‘s an entertainment as well. The narrative arc which brings her to her final affirmative “yes” is as hazy and chaotic as lives are – I found myself wanting a little more structure, but this show is what it is – it’s a sexual life progression that has all the diversions and openings and narrative structure that anyone’s life has, except she has been on the front line of sexual practices (which makes it sound like some vaguely disturbing 50s sex manual, but it isn’t,  its warm, human and rather funny at times).  Good old chaotic reality, impressively delivered. 

 
What we get is series of reflections on pivotal moments , on marathon sex sessions with the occasional pizza break – the question isn’t “Why” , it’s more a curious “How?”.  How did a Doc Martined, signed-up monogamous lesbian take a different tack one drunken night. She tells us, and somehow it is more comforting and sustaining, this “how” without all the baggage of explanation of the why. As ever the important things in a wide ranging and kinky sexuality, BDSM are good quality conversation and connection. The pizza breaks are as exciting as the sexual action, if you’re doing it right. It’s a good message and one that has given Cameryn a route to a resounding yes to her choices, and an affirmation of self. The show ends on a high note, as Cameryn reaches where she is now, having taken us on a winding route with a lot of sex on the way, some of it vanilla flavoured, some of it highly exotic.
 

Published by Bill Parslow

Show Website

 http://www.camerynmoore.com/