Oh Yes Oh No by Louise Orwin Camden People's Theatre's Hotbed Festival of Sex

Let’s talk about sex baby.

Even in today’s media-saturated, ‘sex-crazed’ culture, speaking about sex and female desire is still taboo. Did you know that the number one rising erotica genre for women is ‘Dark Erotica’, which deals with rape fantasies/non-consensual sex? And that it is largely written by women? Yet why are the popular books and studies on female desire written by men?

In her brand new, uncompromising show OH YES OH NO artist-researcher and provocateur Louise Orwin will attempt to tackle these problems, asking audiences to consider why these conversations are still taboo, and, crucially, by putting women’s voices at the centre of the conversation.

The show asks how we understand female desire in a patriarchal society, and in an almost traceless, sinister rape-culture.

Steady yourself…. OH YES OH NO is taking questions from the floor, and it’s about to answer loud and clear.

Based on her own extensive research (for which she conducted interviews with women from all over the UK) alongside her own experiences and thoughts, Louise Orwin has created a show that is about trying to understand what you want, and wondering how to ask for it. It’s also about S-E-X. And wondering how the fuck to make a show about sex. Expect home videos, bodice-ripping yarns, keys in the bowl, explicit XXX, your mouth/mine, and a terrible Radiohead cover.

‘I began to make the show by examining my own sexual desires’ said Louise ‘and realised that some of the things that turned me on are at odds with my politics. I wondered if other women had the same sort of neuroses surrounding their orgasms. I’m looking to give women a voice by letting the world hear real women talking about real sex’.

Louise’s previous shows Pretty Ugly about the trauma teenagers face about their looks and A Girl & A Gun, her witty, fun and provocative look at the way the media uses women and violence both received audience and critical acclaim.

Louise Orwin is a London based artist-researcher. Her work spans the live and the recorded with incarnations in performance, video and photography. She is preoccupied with liveness, awkwardness, femininity and masochism, but above all she likes to have fun.

Praise for Louise:
 ‘an extraordinary performer - a magnetic presence’ Carole Woddis
 ‘I can’t decide if Louise Orwin is a lunatic or a genius’ Jimmy Richards
‘(Louise’s Work) demands and deserves to be seen’ Exeunt
‘performed with real talent and conviction’ The Stage