Embarrassed Naked Female (this show contains nudity)

In certain corners of the internet, Swiss based performer Elsa Couvrer is very, very famous - but not quite the corners she would want to be.
During Covid, Elsa, like many other locked down performers, shared for a short time, a copy of her most recent production, The Sensemaker, a one-woman production in which a young woman, wanting to complete a task with an AI phone operator, is forced to do increasingly strange things. At one point, in a section lasting less than 5 minutes, she is asked to remove her clothes. Elsa has discovered that this segment has been ripped, shared and uploaded to numerous porn websites around the world.

Embarrassed Naked Female (this show contains nudity), is a sequel of sorts - not to The Sensemaker, but to the aftermath and Elsa’s attempt to remove the unauthorised sharing of her image around the world, when it is hidden behind pay walls, mislabeling and various other ways to circumvent her finding it, and demanding its removal.

Conservatively dressed and bespectacled and standing behind the lectern at the Chevron Science Theatre (which feels very much like a university lecture hall), Elsa might be the girl next door, a PHD candidate in Women’s Studies or a young lecturer in film studies. She speaks with passion and self-deprecating in this hour-long tale of just what can happen with art shared on the net, and how some men feel that they have more right to her performance than she does, and further that she should have no right to censor how they enjoy, share and distribute her work.

A must see for all young women, especially female actors and performers, and first rate girl power theatre that is clever, moving and honest. Take your friends!

Kimberley Shaw

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