HIGH STEAKS

HIGH STEAKS is a show about labia, labia-shaming, cosmetic surgery & fundamentally, body lovin’.

Award-winning, queer performer, ELOINA, hangs two beef steaks from her labia, butchers them up & sizzles them on a grill.

And…her mum is in the show.

Seamlessly melding performance art and comedy clowning, HIGH STEAKS discusses rising demands in young people for labiaplasty – plastic surgery to make the labia smaller/more symmetrical. Through live conversations with her mum and recorded interviews with labia-owners, HIGH STEAKS is a call for increased visibility of varied vulvas and a celebration of our vulvas in all their shapes & sizes.

After selling out its 6 night run at VAULT Festival before the festival began, HIGH STEAKS received an OFFIE Nomination, only 5 star reviews & won the VAULT/Summerhall Award.

HIGH STEAKS was partly developed at PARL (Performance Art Research, Lubljana) in 2021.

This show is performed fully nude & the safeguarding practices (listed below) are integral for the safety of the performer & the audience. I am also joined on stage by my Mum throughout different parts of the show. She sits on the front row and gets up and down throughout the show.

The vulnerable nature of this show means that the venue MUST be comfortable and confident to fulfil the safeguarding and front of house protocol, linked here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1irOs311pMRbq83jma-6CvrPnXDuvG6nUv930ZZX6mIM/edit?usp=sharing (page 6-8)