"Get on your knees" -- hetero but definitely sexy...
A capsule review in this week's New Yorker "Goings on about town" intrigued me. An unabashed one-woman show about sex is playing Manhattan's Cherry Lane Theater through Aug.18 --
"Heterosexuality and its manifold indignities are the subjects of this charmingly raunchy and very funny standup set by the comedian Jacqueline Novak. Nothing is less cool, in 2019, than to be a woman who 'lusts after the common shaft,' but such is Novak’s predicament. She makes the best of it by bringing her 'poetic eye' (why call it 'doggy style' when you could speak of 'the Hound’s Way'?) and analytical swagger to sex -- particularly the oral variety.
"Novak was twelve when she first learned that her 'teeth were a danger to men' [not further explained, alas!]; pacing the stage in a pointedly schlumpy gray T-shirt and jeans, she goes deep on the semantics of the male member and the equally vulnerable male ego. Directed by John Early, the show is an overthinker’s delight, and a reminder that a woman’s humor can cut as deeply as her rage."
Too bad I can't get up to the City while it's on.
Reviewed by Alexandra Schwartz https://www.newyorker.com/goings-on-about-town/theatre/get-on-your-knees-08-05-and-12-19
"Heterosexuality and its manifold indignities are the subjects of this charmingly raunchy and very funny standup set by the comedian Jacqueline Novak. Nothing is less cool, in 2019, than to be a woman who 'lusts after the common shaft,' but such is Novak’s predicament. She makes the best of it by bringing her 'poetic eye' (why call it 'doggy style' when you could speak of 'the Hound’s Way'?) and analytical swagger to sex -- particularly the oral variety.
"Novak was twelve when she first learned that her 'teeth were a danger to men' [not further explained, alas!]; pacing the stage in a pointedly schlumpy gray T-shirt and jeans, she goes deep on the semantics of the male member and the equally vulnerable male ego. Directed by John Early, the show is an overthinker’s delight, and a reminder that a woman’s humor can cut as deeply as her rage."
Too bad I can't get up to the City while it's on.
Reviewed by Alexandra Schwartz https://www.newyorker.com/goings-on-about-town/theatre/get-on-your-knees-08-05-and-12-19