CBT Love Story
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Oh my … a play about cock and ball torture. Hope they tour America.
Prese release:
Fecund Theatre, a contemporary art house group based in Hants, presents Special, an intelligent and clever performance exploring an intensely sexual BDSM/CBT relationship based on inner needs, human nature and the discovery of profound peace through pain and orgasm. The show premieres at New Greenham Arts Centre, Newbury, on 10 February, 2007.
From a delicate, uncertain beginning, the two protaganists - Steve and Emily - lay bare their sexual souls. Male and female empowered, she is goddess, he is warrior: “deal with the pain for me”. An adventure unfolds as an ever more complex and addictive game is played out.
Special has been two years in the making. It is a sincere and sympathetic celebration of masculine and feminine sexuality, using actors who have thoroughly researched the lives of real people on whom the characters are based. The piece involves the use of multimedia on stage, while Mark Bennett’s 3D photography of past Torture Garden events will be exhibited in the foyer of most tour venues before and after the show, with a different display in pre and post-show segments.
Fecund Theatre is led by artistic director, John Keates, who undertook the rigorous research and creation of a BDSM/CBT love affair. Special is his fifteenth production for Fecund. The cast includes Mark Doyle, Ian Golding and Elisa Lasowski and Siri Steinmo.
Keates says: “Special is a contemporary love story with a real edge. It is an intelligent production exploring male and female passion and sexuality charting the journey of a couple who discover a sense of contentment through intense sexual experiences. It is a journey of mind as much as body. For those who experience it, there’s no going back.”
Special will premiere at New Greenham Arts Centre, Newbury, on 10 February, 2007, and will then tour the UK and Ireland, with a week’s run at Hackney Empire, London, from 2-7 April. See www.fecund.co.uk for full tour dates.
Comments
I read this myself this morning. The following is the text on an e mail I sent to the head of Fecund theatre.
‘I have just read your press release for ‘special’ and the research undertaken by your artistic director. I wonder what research this was exactly? Did he speak to people who have been burnt by BDSM? Or did he just swallow the rampant propaganda which emanates from within the Sadistic lifestyle? A contemporary love story? Since when has abuse and humiliation had anything to do with love? Maybe if he was to talk to people who’s lives have been destroyed through sadists satisfying their warped lust on others then he might just have come up with a much more challenging piece, how everyday people are enticed into this nasty cult of violence, to be used abused and passed around like meat, then dumped to pick up their lives when they have given everything.
But that would be far too controversial wouldn’t it?
In case your artistic director feels the need for some more ‘research’ he could do no worse than read the story of someone destroyed by sadism.
http://bitingbeaver.blogspot.com/2006/01/bdsm-from-bbs-perspective.html’
Posted by: Spartacus | February 9, 2007 4:46 AM
Anybody this obsessed with other people’s sex lives clearly is working out aggression and frustration and projecting it onto myriads of people that he’s never met.
Posted by: Dr. Sexology | February 9, 2007 7:53 AM
Saying that bdsm is evil because some people got burnt is like saying that sex is evil because some people got raped.
Posted by: roo-roo | February 9, 2007 2:32 PM