Post by joem on Apr 29, 2018 19:05:43 GMT
First production in thirty-five years of Sarah Daniels play about the influence pornography has on violence on women and rape.
Starts off promisingly with some sharp dialogue and good scenes, setting the agenda through the eyes of different characters, in particular a family featuring a rather distant mum, stepdad, daughter and her husband, plus daughter's best friend and her husband. Conveniently we have within this extended family a teacher who is appalled at the pornography her teenage pupils are seeing (effectively girlie magazines, the rowing boats to today's nuclear submarines of porn flourishing on the net), a social worker, a fatuous bore and a would-be rapist. Plus the George and Mildred redux team which the older couple forms.
Sadly the second half deteriorates into an amorphous rant against masculinity in general with narrative gems such as one of the characters being distraught after watching a snuff movie at a cinema. Wonder which cinema Ms Daniels had in mind?
Not hard to see why this has not been revived. It manages to be both dated and incredible - in the wrong sense of the word.
Starts off promisingly with some sharp dialogue and good scenes, setting the agenda through the eyes of different characters, in particular a family featuring a rather distant mum, stepdad, daughter and her husband, plus daughter's best friend and her husband. Conveniently we have within this extended family a teacher who is appalled at the pornography her teenage pupils are seeing (effectively girlie magazines, the rowing boats to today's nuclear submarines of porn flourishing on the net), a social worker, a fatuous bore and a would-be rapist. Plus the George and Mildred redux team which the older couple forms.
Sadly the second half deteriorates into an amorphous rant against masculinity in general with narrative gems such as one of the characters being distraught after watching a snuff movie at a cinema. Wonder which cinema Ms Daniels had in mind?
Not hard to see why this has not been revived. It manages to be both dated and incredible - in the wrong sense of the word.
