The Sex of Strangers
Cameryn Moore introduces you to people she knows
by Caitlin Murphy
Our feelings about sexuality can have a torturous range: shame, vulnerability, dread, uncertainty… and that’s with our clothes still on!
In Cameryn Moore’s latest piece, Release, she presents a patchwork quilt of characters contending with the vulnerabilities of sexual identity. The result: a moving and intimate piece about the trials of intimacy.
After a bit of a drawn-out, sleepy opening, Release launches into six monologues, from an array of characters of different genders and sexual orientations, all seeking or discovering some form of release. A shy lesbian from the mid-west waits for her more brazen lover outside a sex shop in NYC; a drunken, middle-aged woman soaks up the liberating energies of Mardi Gras; a man transitioning to a woman seeks solace in a random conversation with a stranger; a ‘big girl’ recounts losing her virginity to an older man with a fat fetish.
