theatre review

Love For Sale

Maelstrom Theatre Company

I'm not sure what message this drama was trying to get across. At the heart of the play's plot lies one of the oldest clichés in the book: a connection between a vicar and a prostitute, two professions diametrically opposed. The play consists of a two entwined monologues from a mother and her daughter. The daughter of two church ministers is, she says, a prostitute by choice. The husband /father is horrible; he only cares for himself, and never watches his daughter play netball but picks her up at a church convention and rapes her. Then she gets her revenge by gluing him to an inflatable sex doll, and beating the baby he helped to conceive. A bleak tale, but what's its point?

Rocket @ Demarco Roxy Art House, 3 - 25 Aug (not 10,17), 6.50pm (7.50pm), £7.00 (£5.00), fpp 212

tw rating: 2/5

published: Aug-2008

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