THUNDERCUNT
THUNDER(noun): A loud rumbling noise heard after a lightning flash, due to the expansion of rapidly heated air.
CUNT(noun): Slang for a woman’s genitals.
THUNDERCUNT(noun): Empowered female: “Aw mate, she’s a raging thunder-cunt.”
Sharon Mahoney’s latest five-star sell-out comedy show will grab you by the short and curlies. After touring Australia where the show received rave reviews, standing ovations, and a comedy award at Fringeworld (Perth), Mahoney was picked up by the production company; Heroes of the Fringe, where she had an equally successful run at the famous Edinburgh Fringe Festival this 2019!
This latest stand up comedy show from performing veteran Sharon Mahoney, directed and co-written by Eric Amber tackles a smorgasbord of issues – including, as the show title suggests, censorship and feeling offended – perhaps without even knowing why. Mahoney says, “I was in a line-up in a bar in Australia and I accidentally cut a woman off, which being Canadian, meant I almost had a nervous breakdown. But when I went over to apologize, the woman called me a Thundercunt. To which I replied, ‘Did you just call me a Thundercunt? – I didn’t even know that was a word.’ It sounded so powerful. But then I felt super confused, because in Canada it’s the most offensive thing you can say. Then I wondered, how can one word be so charged: negatively and positively? I realized I didn’t know what the word means – I just know what I’ve been dictated to think. That’s when I decided to investigate and learn the truth and facts of the word.”
The show not only tackle themes of empowerment and censorship but Mahoney also shares stories of family, her tomboy childhood, Star Wars, Disney, propaganda, men – and of course the thunderous ‘C’ word.
Nothing is off limits in this show that delivers wonderfully perverse laughs and a powerful message of what feminism should really be about. This is a comedy show of how one woman found her superpower… and embraced the Thundercunt within.
“I created this show because the time is right to talk about how women can stand up for themselves and feel empowered without being labelled as bitter man-haters. For me feminism is about equality and that extends to solidarity for men too,” said Mahoney.
This is a no -holds bar comedy that will also make you think!
Joyful, triumphant, Hilarious, enlightening, inspiring…. DO NOT MISS THUNDERCUNT!
She strides the stage like a cross between Hunter. S. Thompson and Bette Midler, making the vagina monologues look like a conversation at a woman’s institute tea party.
I could barely catch my breath from Laughing, her talents are undisputed and she is unapologetically hilarious.
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