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The Sex Party

Terry Johnson

Four couples gather in a suburban London home for a night of wine, cheese, and more intimate pleasures. Some are curious newcomers, some are old hands, but one guest takes them all by surprise. Thus an evening full of promise is poised to go beyond anyone’s expectations.

Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780571382682
Date Published
17.11.2022
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Summary

Well yes and no. It’s sexy, but pedestrian. Hieronymus Bosch in Smethwick. Hetty and I found a little alcove with our Sauvignon.

Four couples gather in a suburban London home for a night of wine, cheese, and more intimate pleasures. Some are curious newcomers, some are old hands, but one guest takes them all by surprise. Thus an evening full of promise is poised to go beyond anyone’s expectations.

Terry Johnson’s The Sex Party premiered at the Menier Chocolate Factory, London, in November 2022.

Critic Reviews

Defined by rollicking dialogue, good old-fashioned writerly craft and an implicit faith in theatre as a forum for exploring difficult subjects. . . . For all its knowing bouts of crassness, The Sex Party is sensitively handled . . . it invites us to think about what we choose, who we choose, and how we arrive at being truly ourselves.

Daily Telegraph
Critic Reviews

Terry Johnson's spiky comedy . . . feels genuinely edgy.

Guardian
Critic Reviews

Tartly funny.

Financial Times
Critic Reviews

Very funny and bracingly bleak.

Mail on Sunday
TerryJohnson

Terry Johnson is a playwright and director. His dozen major theatre awards include a Tony for Best Director for La Cage Aux Folles, and Oliviers for Best Comedy for Hysteria and Cleo, Camping, Emmanuelle and Dick. He is a former Literary Associate at the Royal Court where five of his own plays – Insignificance, Cries from the Mammal House, Hysteria,…

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