Image: Donut Lick
The three plays that make up LOVERS FROM HELL are all world premieres, although The Smell of Asparagus Pee appeared in its original short-story form in Kevin Bentley’s excellent anthology Boyfriends from Hell in 2003.
"You can stay here if you like. There's a spare room. With a lock on the door..."
A young woman turns up at a remote farmhouse in the middle of the night, dressed to kill and claiming to have broken down. But she has brought her demons with her. Sexy demons.
"Pleasure doesn't have to come at a cost. But then, we're brought up to believe it must, aren't we? We're brought up to be, well, almost afraid of pleasure sometimes..."
At the Gemini Lodge Guesthouse, Weston super Mare, the proprietor has a very strange way of welcoming his guests.
"Men love selfish lovers. They love to fight for their love. They love to feel the pain of one-sided love. They love to feel chivalrous and denied and heartbroken..."
Shaun Levin's intense and disturbing short stories have a theatricality that cries out to be tranlsated into live performance. So here is the first fully dramatised adaptation of his work: a darkly poetic portrait of an abandoned lover, shot through with bitter humour and startling imagery.
"Get thee behind me, Satan!"
To mark the transfer to the big stage, we will be adding a brand new playlet to the programme, to be performed at the end of the evening. "Donut" is a ten-minute bon-bouche describing the attempts of bon viveur Phil to persuade his neurotic, perfect-bodied boyfriend Linus to eat a jam donut while they are having sex.
There will be two free after-show discussions: with the authors (Shaun Levin and Robert Farrar) on Friday 25th, and with the company (Phil Setren, Robert Farrar and members of the cast) on Wednesday 2nd. These will be opportunities to give feedback on these provocative plays, or just to hear more about how they came to be written and brought to the stage.
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Todd Boyce and Mari-Claire Turley in Complex
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