Thursday, November 20, 2014

Broken Sex Doll 

I am happy to be challenged; I am prepared to be offended; I do not, however, welcome being bored.  But this is exactly "Broken Sex Doll" managed to do.

It has been revived at the York theatre by the Cultch from a previous run in 2012.  Why it was thought fit to be revived is a mystery.  It takes a premise, worth perhaps 10 minutes as a comic sketch, and with the addition of a number of tuneless songs, stretches it out into almost two hours.

Who thought sex could be made so tedious?  One has only to think of "Vixens of Wonderland," mounted in August at Performance Works, to see how material like this can be made raunchy and titillating and be a lot of fun in the process.

Very disappointing.

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