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In a tiny theatre in Aotearoa, New Zealand, four teenage stagehands work tirelessly to help Morgana tell the stories that shaped her - from her own teenagehood in 1998, to working foot-fetish parties in New York City, to falling in love and later birthing her babies in a Melbourne living room. By turns vulnerable and riotously funny, she moves from lamenting her chins to marvelling at her cellular functions, using her body as the living template for every tale she tells. Created and performed by Morgana O'Reilly (The White Lotus) and co-directed with her husband and real-life birth partner, 2025 BAFTA nominee Peter Salmon (After The Party), Stories About My Body blends nudity, heart-swelling honesty and real birth footage into a stand-up comedy special like no other - intimate, fearless and unexpectedly profound.
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00:01Mum, you're late. You literally just have to go.
00:03Yeah, okay.
00:05Bye mum!
00:06Wake you're late!
00:08What is my mind and what is my body
00:10can blow apart and come back together again
00:13by the minute, by the hour, by the day?
00:16Like, my boobs used to look like this
00:19and now they look like this.
00:26Queenie, queenie, don't drop the ball.
00:28Queenie, queenie, don't drop the ball.
00:30What are you?
00:32Queenie, queenie, don't drop the ball down.
00:34Come baby cradlin' on.
00:35I have arrived in New York City.
00:39She's a beaut.
00:45Foot worship parties can make up to $300 a night.
00:51You have no opinions. That's hard for me.
00:53That is, that's quite hard for me.
00:57But then something strange happened around this time.
01:01Something I really couldn't have prepared for.
01:03I fell in love.
01:12Every mark has a novel behind it.
01:15Of a whole fucking decade of worrying about a child.
01:18You are the world.
01:19And the tectonic plates of your body
01:22are shifting to allow a volcano pass.
01:25Thank you, Coach!
01:27Thank you, Coach!
01:28Thank you!
01:43Thank you!
01:45Amen.
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