Wearing a guitar and a string bikini, Rebecca Torosian is the one-woman star of Cock Healer -- a play about sex and the women who sell it. Based on Rebecca's 18 years of experience as a New York City bachelor-party stripper, surrogate sex therapist and sensual masseuse, Cock Healer kicks off as The Party Girl gets down, dancing into the audience to sit in men's laps and shake her cleavage. As the skit pushes on, Rebeccas's acting is spotty but fun: playing four rowdy women driving to their next striptease gig in the wee hours of the morning (her voice, however, not quite supporting all the changes). But when the exhausted Rebecca, playing herself, announces that four bachelor parties' worth of whipped cream and girl-on-girl shows is finally over, her relief at being able to go home and have sex with her boyfriend is a reminder that a stripper is often the bread-winner.
Chock full of provocative ballet and original folk songs, the rest of the show takes a few quick stabs at serious issues -- violence toward strippers and social prejudice -- before dwindling off into a series of jokes about men who frequent erotic massage parlors. Armed with amateurish drawings of SIC (slow-in-cumming) men, vagina worshippers and prostate lovers, Rebecca gives an anti-climatic finish, at which most of the audience wonders aloud whether that was the end before hesitantly getting up to go. However, in good moments and bad, Rebecca fills the stage all by herself, leaving no room to get bored of her scandalous routine.
