It’s been sitting on someone’s desk, in a pile, for over a year in the Royal Court in London, and also for the past few months at the Abbey. It’s my first play, and I’m rather fond of it. It’s about the internet, pervy sex and home cooking. One of the characters, Margot, decides to do a kinky soft porn webcam pay-per-view cookery show, on cumcooking.com, after her husband dies. The play is about her exploits, and of three other characters: a young man who gets it into his head that fat is sexy, and so he determines to eat till he is so fat that he can’t move; the man who loves him, but who ends up accused of his murder, and scuzzlad, the cybergeek who directs her show and runs porn sites and chatlines and, in my imagination, has a soundtrack rather like zerocrop.
The play tackles some electric and controversial themes in a bold manner, looking at sexuality and dramatising the ways sexual status continues to pervade our society. The characters are all drawn with care, their flaws giving them a real texture and depth, and the dialogue is both touching and brutally honest. This is a weird and wonderful play.
Soho Theatre Writers’ Centre
“I enjoyed the play very much. Thematically I found the piece compelling and insistent and thought the notions of appetite were given a fantastic twist. I think any piece that uses the forum of internet chat runs the risk of being better done as a radio drama but I think that the emotional content of the piece packs a real punch and would give a creative director / company plenty to play with.”
Frantic Assembly
Although we enjoyed the play, the overall feeling was that the style of the piece and the subjects it addresses are not quite in keeping with the kind of work that Rough Magic produces.
Rough Magic Theatre Company
It’s quite extreme, so I’m not surprised it will take a while to find a home.
A 3-hander, 2 acts, 1 website. Gotta love it.
Oh, I think it’s worth a punt keeping the domain one more year.