PLAY REVIEW: Tell Me Where it Hurts ★ ★ ★★
There is something quietly radical about a play asking its audience simply to listen. In Tell Me Where It Hurts, Teepee Productions turns that seemingly modest request into an affecting, often funny examination of Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder (PMDD), female pain and the exhausting business of not being believed. Written by Tayla Kenyon and directed by Emma Fisher, the 80-minute comedy-drama centres on Chrissy (Stephanie Booth), a drama teacher attempting to keep her professional and personal life together while living with the debilitating effects of PMDD. Alongside her is Annie (Kenyon), a talented but troubled student auditioning for drama school, while James Schofield deftly inhabits a succession of supporting roles. The production’s greatest strength is its humanity. Chrissy is not reduced to a diagnosis, nor is PMDD treated as a convenient dramatic device. Instead, Kenyon explores what happens when a person repeatedly explains that something is wrong, only to find that the peop...
