Only girls get called sluts. No, sometimes boys get called sluts but it’s like the biggest
compliment. And sometimes girls try to own it. A girl might say, ‘Yeah, I’m a slut, and I
love it.’ But in the end she’ll be worn down by it. It’s a no win situation to be a slut no
matter how much a girl thinks her life’s her own and she can do whatever she wants.
A slut’s a slut. One young woman described it as being like a bag to piss in. Lolita is
the queen of sluts. And she puts in an almighty fight to maintain her reign. Eventually
she is hauled mercilessly from her throne.
Slut is a play with a central character, Lolita and a chorus of young women who watch
her rise and final devastating fall.
Slut premiered at Platform Youth Theatre in Melbourne in 2009 as part of a double bill
with Christos Tsolkias’s piece Ugly.
Winner 2009 AWGIE Award for Theatre for Young Audiences
Winner 2009 AWGIE Award for The Richard Wherrett Prize
