Asking For It
“Filmmaker Drew Denny’s raunchy, darkly funny Asking For It is a Fleabag fix in a post-Fleabag world”
— Harper’s Bazaar
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A queer contemporary take of the Goldilocks tale: about love, music, and breaking the cycle of abuse.
From CBC Podcasts and Mermaid Palace, Asking For It is a groundbreaking look at intimate partner violence through one woman’s journey. Nominated for Best Fiction Podcast at the first ever Podcast Academy Awards in 2021.
Goldie escapes a chaotic childhood only to go from a partner who starves her of love to a partner who nearly drowns her in it, before learning to be just right on her own. This 7-episode narrative podcast uncovers how we are conditioned to take on roles of victim and abuser – and the difficulty of dismantling that paradigm – with truths so absurd, all we can do is laugh.
Listen to the podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.
Listen to the original soundtrack on Spotify or wherever you listen to music.
“Dark and hooky…” “Asking For It, written, narrated and directed by Drew Denny, pushes the genre to an even greater extreme.”
— Dana Goodyear, The New Yorker
“A bingeable fiction show… Asking For It is dark, immersive and raw. ”
— Thomas Adam Curry, AnOther Mag
“Looking for a Fleabag fix in a post-Fleabag world? You’ll find solace in the similarly audacious Asking For It, filmmaker Drew Denny’s raunchy, darkly funny seven-episode narrative podcast.”
— Keely Weiss, Harper’s Bazaar
A one-woman show exploring the cycle of violence and internalized homophobia through audience participation, projection, and jokes.
Originally performed at the Roy and Edna Disney Cal Arts Theatre in Los Angeles.
