RLT presents Gracie Gardner's Pussy Sludge

For Audiences 18+

Real Live Theatre presents Gracie Gardner's award-winning script following a young woman who comes to call herself Pussy Sludge. Crude oil is coming out of her vagina, so she moves to a state park to deal with it out there, alone. During her time in the forest, many passersby come to offer their advice and possibly comfort. There is something (alive maybe) inside the sludge, and it is dangerous.

*Pussy Sludge* is a fever-dream Queer love story/adventure about how we deal with trauma; how we heal and how we do not. It’s about bodily autonomy and bodily functions. It’s about the power of the erotic, pleasure, and shame. The purpose of *Pussy Sludge* is not to normalize bodies and what they can do, yet it does.

*Pussy Sludge* challenges the status quo of gender roles within the patriarchy; invites audiences to witness someone grappling with their mental health; and combats the idea that things like physical pleasure, grief, and bodily functions should be hidden away or fit into neat categories. *Pussy Sludge* imagines what a world without shame might be like (and doesn't offer any easy answers).