PERIOD. | Adelaide Fringe 2022 review

Carla Anita Mattiazzo’s superb one-woman show is everything you ever wanted to know about periods (but were afraid to ask).

PERIOD. starring Carla Anita Mattiazzo

PERIOD.

Cabaret/Comedy

Rating: *****

The Breakout at The Mill

Until March 6

Do you need any Modess? That is all Mum had to ask for teenage me to have a major meltdown in aisle five.

Back when we called it PMT – “premenstrual tension”, rather than today’s “premenstrual syndrome” – for a reason.

In the mid ‘80s, period was a dirty word and the mere mention of it was like waving a red rag …

If only there had been Carla Anita Mattiazzo’s PERIOD. to enlighten us.

It is everything you ever wanted to know about periods (but were afraid to ask) and more.

Mattiazzo, who is a teacher, has done her homework and her one-woman show celebrating “Beautiful Bloody Bleeders” and “Period Pride” is both informative and entertaining.

The ins and outs of tampons and every other period product are examined, along with period pain, poverty and sex.

Mattiazzo is a superb singer and performer, giving new meaning to the Britney Spears ballad I’m Not a Girl, Not Yet a Woman.

This show is rated M, but parents of young teens would be wise to make it a family outing because it’s the best period education out there — and bloody awesome, full stop.