I've enjoyed Rebecca Lea McCarthy's performances before, most recently in Arsenic and Old Lace at Lakewood Playhouse. In 2012, I nominated her "Doris" from Olympia Little Theatre's Same Time, Next Year for a Carvy. Turns out she's an author, too, and her second book, Writing the Diaphragm Blues and Other Sexual Cacophonies, was released in 2012. Her stage play's an adaptation of that work, described by one online reviewer as "(p)art memoir, part feminist scholarship...with just enough dirty jokes to keep it a guilty pleasure." Where the chickens fit in, I have absolutely no idea.

Read Christian Carvajal's full feature on Singing the Diaphragm Blues in the Music & Culture section.

SINGING THE DIAPHRAGM BLUES, 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday, March 13-15, 4th Wall Players Theatre, 15019 Meridian E., #A, Puyallup, $10.50, 206.395.4343