In her memoir released last year, Lena Dunham opined, "There is nothing gutsier to me than a person announcing that their story is one that deserves to be told, especially if that person is a woman." It was a thought that continually returned to me throughout Anna Jordan's Freak at the Burton Taylor Studio.

Freak elaborates on the experiences of two women, particularly their sexual lives, in an utterly daring way. The script poetically gives an uncensored glimpse into the deep vulnerabilities of the two characters. Some of what the audience hears is silly, rude, off-putting, harrowing, and traumatic. All of it is part of the ordinary yet unspoken lives of women.

For this reason alone, Freak is a success. It carves out an unapologetic space for female voices. The music is loud, there is swearing, there is an immediacy which calls the audience to pay attention, even if they're uncomfortable.

The play starts with Georgie, a thirty-year-old woman dealing with grief and a break-up. Her misery leads her to self-destructiveness through drug and alcohol-use and sex. Her sad, yet mesmerising monologues are juxtaposed with those of her teenage niece, Leah, who is starting to explore her own sexuality.

The themes are important, and they are executed by dazzlingly good acting.Erin Stewart

Freak makes connections between the two threads, of women doing sex acts they don't really want to, as well as of men treating them like objects for sexual satisfaction and barely acknowledging their existence, much less their needs.

The themes are important, and they are executed by dazzlingly good acting. Leah delivers hilarious lines with impeccable timing. While Georgie also has moments of humour, her story is intensely dark, and commands focus.

While Freak offers much for theatregoers, the character of Georgie seemed thin in the sense that Jordan doesn't fully colour in her backstory. How her psyche came to gradually unravel and how her use of sex as a means of self-destruction developed would have been helpful in outlining her motivations.

Nonetheless, Freak is an important and enjoyable offering which highlights the world of female sexuality. This world is ubiquitous yet barely gets ever gets space, and sufficiently talented actors and writers, for its complexities to unfold.