Show reviewed: 21/02/26

Show rating: 4 stars

Home Cumming was an interesting production that kind of found me in the wild. It is a surprisingly clever and witty blend of comedy, physical theatre and storytelling by Magalie Rouillard-Bazinet. For me, as a woman entering what are my sexual peak years, it is a surprising relevant theme as it explores certain coming of age moments that many young women go through as they reach sexual maturity.

There is a lot of refreshingly honest discussion on the themes sex and sexuality including female orgasms, so if you find hearing about a quim an uncomfortable, this isn’t the kind of thing for you. Magalie’s is aptly named Antigone. The show does go to some dark, deeply personal moments where Magalie asks some hard questions and is brutally honest with her answers.

Moments I related to from my own journey from girlhood into my thirties was discovering you have a type, confusing sexual intimacy with love and that getting under (or on top) someone else won’t heal a broken heart and fill the hole they left behind. It reflective, thoughtful and provocative theatre at its best.

I think that this is a particularly insightful piece of theatre that questions the paradox of while modern women are sexually liberated, there is really isn’t a contemporary answer to how to guard your heart from breaking. [The answer is therapy for that record and for the truly brave like Magalie, performing a fringe show about it!]

Magalie is a consummate actor who is able to own each moment of she is on the stage through every gesture, expression, movement and phrase she utters. She knows when to hit it hard, when to let things fall softly and has brilliant comedic timing. The audience was packed out and she is one to watch in future fringe festivals.