Proving that beauty is not only skin deep, twenty four women of all ages, shapes and sizes positively shone here, liberated and empowered from being involved in this show, they say.

Speak Up! Act Out! theatre company’s production was funny and heart-warming, a spirited celebration.

The vagina is the symbol for so much that is wrong; to reclaim it is to change the world.

Curiously the word vagina is one many women find it difficult to say, opting for ‘down-there’ or coochi snorcher, or one of a zillion other euphemisms we learned.

Who has ever looked at their vagina? What would your vagina wear? Do you choose hair? Provocative questions these, to start with.

Each monologue was performed within the embrace of the community, all wearing red and black to striking effect.

My Short Skirt stood out for its protest against being an invitation to rape; I Was There in the Room celebrates the wonder of birth; They Beat the Girl out of my Boy was a moving tribute to transgender women.

Sascha Cooper’s energetic performance of her dictionary of moaning (The Woman Who Loved to Make Vaginas Happy) deserves special mention as anyone in the packed auditorium must agree.

Four Stars.