My Year Without Sex is a theatrical comedy developed by Beverly Blankenship and Jessica Gerger and first performed in May 2007.
The play centres on a religious pilgrimage undertaken by its main character Mrs Tickletext, and the various characters and scenarios she encounters along the way. It is performed by one actress using an oversized suitcase which converts into a taxi, a tourist bus, a life-raft, a bed and an English cottage.
My Year Without Sex was developed using contributions from several authors including Oliver Binder, Imogen Church, Magdalena Felixa, Wolfgang Herles, Samuel Altmann-Krum, Andy Leonard, Proschat Madani, Ingrid Rencher, Beverly Blankenship and Jessica Gerger. The writers were given free licence to write any scene they wished, in any style they wanted - monologues, dumb shows, or scenes with a large cast. The results were then combined to form a play to be performed by one actress.
The first production of My Year Without Sex was staged in Vienna at the Drachengasse Theater as part of the Vienna Festival in May 2007. It was then performed on the main stage at The Leicester Square Theatre (formerly The Venue), Leicester Square, London on 14 October 2007.
In 2008 the production toured to the Adelaide Fringe Festival and the Melbourne International Comedy Festival.
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“We know of no scripture which records the pure benignity of the gods on a New England winter night. Their praises have never been sung, only their wrath deprecated. The best scripture, after all, records but a meagre faith. Its saints live reserved and austere. Let a brave, devout man spend the year in the woods of Maine or Labrador, and see if the Hebrew Scriptures speak adequately to his condition and experience.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)