Reviewed by: Clara Reviews
Review by Clara Santilli |
20 March 2026
Show reviewed: 18/03/26
Show rated: A sexy five fingered stars!
Women using the creative arts as a path of resistance of reclaiming their bodies and restoring their own pleasure has been a definite theme in this year’s Adelaide Fringe shows with everything from burlesque tributes sapphic love to celebrating sex work in cabaret form. Local powerhouse comedian, Vida Slayman, has created a show that I like to think of as edu-tainment where she both entertains and informs her audience about…vaginas.* I am glad we are finally talking about sex without the social taboos and how it can be enjoyable for everyone. Science communication and comedy are made for each other in the pursuit of…orgasms…I mean happiness!
Set in the style of a Leyland brothers roving documentary, Slayman in her neat safari outfit takes us on a sex positive journey through the landscape of female genital anatomy in a very gentle way. She masterfully combines learning about female pleasure without shame and the science how the vagina actually works alongside a little social commentary. Her humour is polished and her crowd work is the sort that everyone is voluntarily participating in, no matter if they have vaginas or are vagina-adjacent identifying humans.
*To show I was paying attention the vulva is the external female genitalia (ie. the lips of the “mouth”) while the correct terminology for vagina refers to the internal features of female anatomy (ie.the “mouth.”)