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Melissa Fergusson has met with Auckland sex workers and conducted interviews to gain insight and understanding, for the purpose of honest storytelling. Hopefully my play brings truth, and challenges perception. Lifewise Merge Cafe will be converted into an intimate theatre space, seating up to 60 people per show. Review by John Smythe 26th Sep Playwright Melissa Fergusson interviewed Auckland sex workers by way of developing the six monologues that comprise her script.
Presumably this is optional if you are assertive enough. Either way it orientates us to the idea of being labelled and judged by appearances. Fair enough. Following the screening of part of their YouTube clip, abruptly curtailed I expect it was made for their crowd-funding campaign , the six monologues play out with little variation in placing and pacing more of which later. The characterisations, however, are impressively varied. There is no hope in her story.
When he snorts from a small plastic bag does his voice does lift so maybe he could do that earlier β¦. She is the only one to claim a love of hot guys and hot sex. But the whole show is pretty well devoid of it, which helps to render the eighty minutes unremittingly bleak. Her strategy for learning English is one of the few delights of the night.
The major problem with the whole production, however, is that all three actors deliver all six characters in the same stop-start rhythm: speak β think β speak β think β speak β think β speak β¦ for eighty minutes. If the actors have done this of their own volition, the necessary directorial intervention is sorely lacking.
The result, for the audience, is akin to being a passenger in a car that is stuck in low gear and bunny-hopping down the highway, turning what should have been an interesting and insightful journey into a strangely dislocated experience. Yes, I saw the show in Auckland and agree with this review.