1972: The Future of Sex
Cast: 4f 3m playing multiple characters (large cast possible)
Staging: Flexible staging (ideally with live musical accompaniment)
Amateur rights performance fee: £85 per performance (plus VAT where applicable)
2 May 2019Size: 198mm x 129mm
2 May 2019
1972: The Future of Sex
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It's 1972. An era of possibility and polyester and pubic hair. While Ziggy Stardust is on Top of the Pops, Penny is writing an essay on Lady Chatterley's Lover, Christine is watching Deep Throat and Brian is confused.
Devised by The Wardrobe Ensemble, 1972: The Future of Sex incorporates the company's trademark theatricality, irreverent humour and ensemble ingenuity to tell the story of three couples having sex for the first time – and a country on the brink of a sexual awakening.
Commissioned by Shoreditch Town Hall, the play was first seen there in 2014, before a UK tour in 2015, including performances at Bristol Old Vic and the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. It was revived at the Bristol Old Vic in 2019.
Blog Post: 'We were feeling pretty uncomfortable about the state of sexual politics and wanted to know how we had got to where we were.' Director Tom Brennan and music director Tom Crosley-Thorne on how the play was conceived and created. Read on>>
'[Has an] emotional underpinning that turns an entertaining romp full of spot-on period detail into something deeper and more poignant'
Guardian'A witty, energetic and sympathetic celebration [of] adolescent sexuality'
The Stage'Terrific work… Funny, true and a little bit heartbreaking'
Lyn Gardner - GuardianCast: 4f 3m playing multiple characters (large cast possible)
Staging:Flexible staging (ideally with live musical accompaniment)
Amateur rights performance fee: £85 per performance (plus VAT where applicable)
2 May 2019Size: 198mm x 129mm
2 May 2019
