Monday, April 2, 2007
fuckplays
filed under: We Make Art Not Sex by Lux Nightmare
Theater about sex tends to be hit or miss (and more often than not miss), so it was with some apprehension that I approached fuckplays (billed as “a voyeuristic journey through 8 playwrights’ most private places and a sincere examination of our most basic carnal desires”). I was, however, pleasantly surprised: the performance (jointly produced by Working Man’s Clothes and The Thursday Problem) turned out to be thoughtful, entertaining, funny, and quite smart.
The eight plays (selected from over sixty submissions) each attack the question of sex — how we view it, how we feel about it, and (most importantly) how we talk about it — from a different position, providing the audience with a wide range of commentary, critique, and views about sex. From a Monty Pythonesque scene featuring two Victorian gentlemen drinking tea and conversing about sexual frustration (”The Impotence of Being Ernest”) to the story of a Muslim martyr arriving in heaven to find his promised 72 virgins not quite as he imagined (”Arms and the Octopus”) to the tale of a ventriloquist and the woman in love with his dummy (”Wood”), fuckplays provides a fresh, creative outlook on sex, sexuality, and the way it interacts with our lives.
[Geoff (Steven Strobel) and Buckminster seduce the lovely Simone in “Wood.”]
fuckplays runs from March 28-April 27 at the Ohio Theatre and Galapagos Art Space. Tickets can be purchased at SmartTix. For more information, visit Working Man’s Clothes.
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