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PART love story, part existential examination of woman and desire, Miriam Battye’s play has Lou (Rebekah Murrell) and Tosh (Sex Education’s Tanya Reynolds, making her stage debut) as friends and housemates.
Debating love and sex, they attempt to interrogate the narratives that control female sexuality.
How do women unpick the stories they’ve been told about what they’re supposed to want? How to resist dichotomies like “frigid” and “whore,” they ask, as they scoff at ex-housemate Fran (given an excellent, understated performance by Letty Thomas), who’s in love and getting married.
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