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Originally Posted by cbee

Anyone in the UK I've found some shows that look promising.

Sabrage at Lafayette, King’s Cross has an age restriction 18+, contains nudity and adult themes and runs until 6th September

After Miss Julie at Park Theatre 11th - 28th Feb
Content warnings include strong language, nudity, depictions of violence, and references to suicide and sexual abuse

Yentl at Marylebone Theatre 6th March - 12th April
Trigger warnings: Adult themes including full-frontal male and female nudity, use of flashing lights, haze, smoke effects

The Graduate at The Blue Room, The Lawn, 1 Union Rd, Lincoln 19th - 28th March Thurs, Friday and Saturday only
16+ Contains nudity, scenes of a (comically) sexual nature and some bad language.

And two more that are planned but not much information about them yet are

Equus at Menier Chocolate Factory London 7 May – 27 Jun and Theatre Royal Bath 14 - 25 July

Hitchcock Blonde at Palace Theatre Redditch Palace Studio Wed 28 - Sat 31 Oct

I went to see The Graduate this weekend being an amateur production was not expected a lot on the nudity front as some of the professional ones I'd watched lately had not delivered what they promised.

The play started in the normal way in Benjamin's bedroom building up to the first nude scene where Mrs Robinson comes in and sees him taking off his wetsuit then starts to seduce him. The scene goes where Mrs R tries to get Ben to unzip her dress so she can have a sleep, this he does and she drops the dress to show a black slip standing at the front of the stage with a double bed behind her and a door to the back left and right, she asks Ben to go and get her purse and when he leaves through the door to the right of the stage as you look at it she goes through the door to the left, Ben comes back and she asks him to come into the bathroom and give her the purse she continues to ask a few times which he declines and puts the purse on the bed, Mrs R then appears from the door, I was sat to the right of the stage as you look at it so could only see her shoulders and up as she was hidden by the bed, she comes through the and walks behind the bed to the door on the right to close it at this point you could see she was fully nude, she then turned to face the audience and stood there for at least 40 seconds then she walked behind the bed to the other side where Ben was standing and stood the other side facing forward still and carried on the scene before turning round to walk back out the door to the left, the whole scene lasted over a minute and for most of this you could she everything.

Later Ben and Mrs R meet in a hotel, the bedroom scene started with Mrs R undressing slowly while talking to Ben, she takes off her dress stockings and was down to some silk shorts and a bra, then they both climb into bed, in this production for scene changes they had some maids that came on and moved everything while joking around with the audience, for this scene they came on and held a sheet in front of the bed while Mrs R and Ben were getting into position, sitting slightly to the right I could just about see past and what was happening behind. Mrs R removed her bra and Ben was in boxers and when the sheet was dropped Ben was on top of Mrs R for about 10 seconds then the sheet went up again and some of the maids moved the bed so it was sideways to and when the sheet dropped again Mrs R was on top of Ben topless but Ben was holding her tits then the next bed turn was the headboard to the front with Ben behind for this one the hotel manager walks on with a drink which he gives to Mrs R also when this is happening Mr R comes onto the stage and starts talking as if it's a dream then the last bed turn is back in the normal position with Ben between Mrs R legs under the sheets, he then comes up and they continue the scene with Mrs R covering herself with a sheet but as she moves around her boobs keep popping out from the sheets, the scene ends with her picking up her bra and getting out of bed to the right of stage fully topless and putting her drink on a sideboard then walking behind the bed with her back to me to get dressed again. This is Mrs R last nude scene.

The next nude scene was when Ben was on his first date with Elaine Robinson, he didn't want it to go well so took her to a strip club, one of the actresses who played a maid became the stripper for this scene. Ben and Elaine were sat to the left of the stage as you look at it with the other half free the stripper comes into the room from the door back right in a dressing gown and walks to another of the maids who is holding a record player and puts on some music then stands at the front of the stage and unties the gown and pulls it off her right shoulder and drops it to show her right boob with a tassel on it then she does the same on the left and throws down the dressing gown and stands there with only a thong and tassels on, she then starts her dance moving from one side to the other the does some hip thrusts and a few more moves before turning round and walking towards the back off the stage while flicking her legs up to kick her bum she then turns round and shakes her boobs so the tassels are moving in different directions making them go both ways then she walks behind Elaine and makes out she smacking her boobs around Elaine's head then walks by one of the maids that is playing a drunk before coming back to do the same again to Elaine, at this Ben gets up and turns the music off and gives her money to leave which she does with one of the men from the bar to earn a bit more money, this scene lasted for about a minute and a half, once Ben and Elaine had done there talking the stripper comes back in still in tassels counting her money to get her dressing gown Elaine says how nice her boobs were and she spends another 30 seconds before covering.

The last nude scene was right at the end after Ben had interrupted Elaine's wedding and they had run away together, Elaine is in her wedding dress and recreates the scene from earlier where Mrs R ask Ben to unzip her Elaine sits on the bed which is positioned with the headboard at an angle on the right side of the stage with the front facing towards the front left and removes her shoes Ben then unzips her dress, she then takes off the dress revealing some silk shorts a white bra and stockings, she takes a cigarette from Ben and puts one leg on the bed and removes the stocking she then does the same on the other side, facing towards the back right hand side of the stage so where I was sat had a good side view, she then stands sideways towards us and takes off her bra and turns facing towards front left where we could still see her boobs talks for a few seconds and then turns back picks up her dress and sits on the bed covering herself, this is the last scene and when it finishes the lights go out so they can leave the stage.

As well as all of this it was the best version of the Graduate I'd ever seen, very funny, really well acted by the whole cast and some really brave nudity from the actresses that probably had family, friends and work colleagues in the audience.