A Lady Does Not Scratch Her Crotch – Hen and Chickens Theatre
It’s a tale as old as time and a song as old as rhyme. Beauty is painful and beastliness is punishable. For a young girl trying to break the glass ceiling of her blossoming rose’s bell jar there’s just no wiggle room.
Written and performed by Celeste Cahn, A Lady Does Not Scratch Her Crotch is permeated with plenty of (a little too) personal details but carries a near universal appeal. Partially thanks to the ubiquity of Disney but in greater part due to the depressing universality of coming-of-age angst and female sexual frustration, A Lady Does Not Scratch Her Crotch hits right in the soft spots of its audience.
Cahn is in turns pathetic and poised, cringe-inducing and awe-inspiring. Her generosity with the audience is palpable (really, you can touch, and we’re not playing by P...