Actor and playwright Sarah McDougall wrote the comedy Slutty Ladies Garden Party to perform in the Dunedin Fringe Festival. The play was designed to reposition the "sneering view" of sluts, Ms McDougall said.
Sluts needed to be celebrated rather than shamed, she said.
Actor Elsa May completes the cast of two after replacing actor Cheryl Amos last month.
"She slipped smoothly into the slot," Ms McDougall said.
Miss May said the comedy-drama would reclaim the word slut.
The dictionary definition of the word slut was a promiscuous and untidy woman, Ms McDougall said.
"But who didn't have it off a lot in their youth? And what's wrong with having it off a lot? If you are a geezer and you have it off a lot, you're a stud."
As for being untidy, the idea of being "spoofed up 24/7" was unappealing, Ms McDougall said.
Having sex was much more enjoyable than housework and preening, she said.
The cast would share their "slutty wisdom" and discuss the ins-and-outs of slutdom.
The audience, a maximum of 25 people per show, could put questions in a box on entering for the cast to answer during the show. The audience could dress slutty for the "intimate celebration" if they wished, Ms McDougall said.
The show was R16 and the audience should prepare for "a bit of a swear and a belly laugh," Ms McDougall said.
Comedy Slutty Ladies Garden Party starts tonight in the McDougall's Garden and ends next Sunday.
