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Originally Posted by glaurung726
I believe it's likely that this performance is not actually real and instead part of a long-running, elaborate fantasy someone has about erotic performances.
The "director's" name pops up occasionally on this forum associated with extremely provocative erotic theatre pieces- Lucy Springhall - who does not appear to be a real person. Experienced directors tend to have an established web presence, "she" has nothing other than vague references to this and a couple previous erotic performances (also posted to this forum.)
Same with the actors in this piece. Established actors always have some sort of web presence. These people don't, although I suppose they could be pseudonymous, but that seems unlikely. The male actor in this piece has "performed" in another one of Lucy Springhall's erotic plays, Love and Sex in the Bible, but again, zero web presence other than that. Same thing with the female actor in that piece - zero web results. The "performance companies" that put on her plays? Zero results for any of those, either (and there are multiple ones for different respective performances.)
None of Lucy's pieces have any reviews up by people who have actually seen them aside from several erotic blog/reddit posts that read like fantasy fiction. The consistent thread with all of these posts are a description of hard-to-believe levels of eroticism and physical contact in the performances. It seem likely some legitimate site/known reviewer would have taken notice of one of these pieces over the years if they actually existed given their unusual provocative content, but no.
For this piece the posting listed an address. It is not an established studio space in London, though it seems possible it could be somewhere Lucy has rented short-term.
All in all this is a somewhat astounding level of dedication and effort put in to a fake that has been going on for what I believe is over a decade now? I've been skeptical for a while but finally got around to putting my thoughts together here. And who knows, I don't have any hard evidence to prove that it *isn't* real, but I'd be willing to bet!
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I agree with a lot of what you are saying, but what would the point be in making up fake plays for years? What is she or whoever it is trying to achieve?
I have searched high and low and this is all I can find about the director, and it has a pic (seems a fake pic to me) - newplayexchange.org/users/57438/lucy-springhall. The performers do not exist, so they have to be fake names.
However in another forum, someone has attended and described the show, so makes me think it has to be real, but just can't understand why there is no proper info on the director/cast out there? It is performed here which is a real studio? artrabbit.com/events/under-our-clothes-2024