Pleasure, shame and disappointment in an absurd, poetic collage.

What is the relationship between our body, mind and genitals? How is it to have a vulva in our society today? The theatre performance ‘A letter to my Vulva’ shares stories of pleasure, sorrow, shame, anger, loneliness, pain, and joy. The play takes the audience through a stream of voices, different layers of feelings and situations that end up with a cathartic effect where the audience can experience a form of liberation. This is done through physical theatre, featuring both humor and seriousness, and with elements of storytelling, clown and buffoon.

‘A letter to my Vulva’ is built on real personal, anonymous letters collected through workshops for women, non-binary and trans people, who share the common experience of having a vulva or identifying with having one.

The performance put focus on the many stories which exist around the vulva. The audience gets an opportunity for recognition, laughter and to put words on their sex and their feelings around it, free from shame and guilt. By doing so, it might help them to take their lust and disinclination seriously. The play is a comic look into the secrets of the vulva, both for those who have one and those who don’t.

Teater Vølven has participated in several events in Copenhagen and in Sweden with shorter performances of ‘A letter to my Vulva’, which were all very well received. Words from the audience: “Strong, touching, funny, provocative, important”.