My First Time

Overview

There’s a plethora of first person narrative around the traps lately. If it’s not the Campfire Collective, then it’s Yarn or Tell Me a Story. Sydney’s story right now is being told, one person at a time, at small bars, former warehouses and late night libraries. Not to mention international storytelling blow-ins like Ira Glass and Mike Birbiglia. One venue that has been toying with the same idea is the near-virginal Opera House, which has dabbled occasionally in first person narrative, but over the summer it’s planning on going all the way.

The gentle, funny and awkward off-Broadway production My First Time is coming to Bennelong Point with a local cast bringing its gentle, funny and awkward stories of virginity lost. Stories are drawn from submissions to the venerable, confessional website MyFirstTime.com. Never heard of it? There’s a first time for everything.