Verlag:
Bloomsbury, London
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
'Easy Access (For The Boys)' is a hard-hitting and uncomfortable play about victims of child abuse, and the challenging complexity of their relationships with their abusers. Michael and his friend Gary were both sexually abused by their fathers....
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'Easy Access (For The Boys)' is a hard-hitting and uncomfortable play about victims of child abuse, and the challenging complexity of their relationships with their abusers. Michael and his friend Gary were both sexually abused by their fathers. Michael, a young prostitute, is making a video diary with Gary's help - an attempt to understand his past and the lies he has been told by his father and by himself. When his dad gets a new assistant and she and her young son move in with him, Michael's determination to protect the child leads him to revisit the past in more ominous detail. Mixing video footage and on-stage conversations, this is a story of blame, love and confusion, in which the sufferings of the past spill over into the rage of the present. 'Easy Access (For The Boys)' premiered at the Drill Hall in 1998.
Verlag:
Bloomsbury, London
;
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
First performed at Edinburgh's Traverse Theatre in 1996, 'All Over Lovely' is a two-character play, which frames a furious debate about politicising feminism and sexuality and darts between the intellectual and the deeply personal. Two women who grew...
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First performed at Edinburgh's Traverse Theatre in 1996, 'All Over Lovely' is a two-character play, which frames a furious debate about politicising feminism and sexuality and darts between the intellectual and the deeply personal. Two women who grew up together meet before a funeral. One of them maintains defiantly that lipstick and a Porsche is not a betrayal of feminism; the other's anarchist principles have somehow turned into an organic fruit and vegetable company who supply to Sainsbury's. Their conversation - sometimes vicious, sometimes comic, sometimes loving - reveals a relationship composed of childhood jealousies, adolescent sexual awakening, politicised lesbianism and feminist compromise.
