Upcoming Stage Nudity in your area?

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Originally Posted by llsn12

I relented about attending Cleansed and being in the circle looked away at a blank wall during the extremely strong and largely male on male violence (though obviously could hear the screaming). A few people only walked out. Any part of the central area of the circle should be fine to sit. The sides of the circle are 100% side on and though people weren't particularly leaning forward there may be issues with the view. The stalls will be mentioned later.

Most of the nudity is from Chanda and photos online show her as very attractive. However, & presumably for this production, she has put on quite a lot of weight. The first nudity is where she swaps clothes. She quickly strips fully naked on one side of the stage, walks across the stage, turns round and quickly puts the other clothes on. So the full nudity can be seen both sides of the theatre but is brief. She is topless for longer before she is fully clothed again.

The next nudity scene is a 'sex' scene between her and her late brother. For this both are behind a partition wall which has very large windows. She strips fully naked and the brother kisses a breast briefly (or appears to). She stands at the back fully naked looking towards the stage and him away to the side facing the other way when they have 'sex' which lasts maybe 30 seconds and involves her standing in the same place moving about a bit (that is, away from the other actor). Being in the circle full nudity (full bush) from Chanda was clear through this scene and both this and the previous scene were in good lighting. It does seem possible however that those in the stalls couldn't see the full nudity in this scene due to the partition wall. They will have seen the topless part of the nudity but maybe not the bottom part. Not having been in the stalls it isn't possible to advise either way about that but there is the warning.

The third nudity from Chanda is brief & more limited with her showing lower front & rear nudity whilst climbing over the partition wall and going onto a bed. She is more clothed than nude for this.

Connolly is in underwear as a dancer (so not overweight) but there is dark red lighting for these scenes. Towards the end she comes out of the dance booth (which doubles up as behind the partition wall for the other scenes). For this scene please note the lighting is a fair bit darker. She goes to the front of the stage and takes her top off showing relatively small breasts whilst in close contact with the male character. They proceed to have sex and he appears to kiss a breast. For this scene they are very close together so not much is seen and despite some of the language used she keeps her underpants on throughout. When finished she gets up topless and moves back to the rear of the stage. She either then leaves or it goes dark & she leaves; I don't quite recall.

Elsewhere someone has said those sitting in the front row of the stalls would be splattered with 'blood' so be warned about that also!

Thank you for the detailed report! Can you give any more details on what Pearl's body/bush looked like?

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Originally Posted by llsn12

I relented about attending Cleansed and being in the circle looked away at a blank wall during the extremely strong and largely male on male violence (though obviously could hear the screaming). A few people only walked out. Any part of the central area of the circle should be fine to sit. The sides of the circle are 100% side on and though people weren't particularly leaning forward there may be issues with the view. The stalls will be mentioned later.

Most of the nudity is from Chanda and photos online show her as very attractive. However, & presumably for this production, she has put on quite a lot of weight. The first nudity is where she swaps clothes. She quickly strips fully naked on one side of the stage, walks across the stage, turns round and quickly puts the other clothes on. So the full nudity can be seen both sides of the theatre but is brief. She is topless for longer before she is fully clothed again.

The next nudity scene is a 'sex' scene between her and her late brother. For this both are behind a partition wall which has very large windows. She strips fully naked and the brother kisses a breast briefly (or appears to). She stands at the back fully naked looking towards the stage and him away to the side facing the other way when they have 'sex' which lasts maybe 30 seconds and involves her standing in the same place moving about a bit (that is, away from the other actor). Being in the circle full nudity (full bush) from Chanda was clear through this scene and both this and the previous scene were in good lighting. It does seem possible however that those in the stalls couldn't see the full nudity in this scene due to the partition wall. They will have seen the topless part of the nudity but maybe not the bottom part. Not having been in the stalls it isn't possible to advise either way about that but there is the warning.

The third nudity from Chanda is brief & more limited with her showing lower front & rear nudity whilst climbing over the partition wall and going onto a bed. She is more clothed than nude for this.

Connolly is in underwear as a dancer (so not overweight) but there is dark red lighting for these scenes. Towards the end she comes out of the dance booth (which doubles up as behind the partition wall for the other scenes). For this scene please note the lighting is a fair bit darker. She goes to the front of the stage and takes her top off showing relatively small breasts whilst in close contact with the male character. They proceed to have sex and he appears to kiss a breast. For this scene they are very close together so not much is seen and despite some of the language used she keeps her underpants on throughout. When finished she gets up topless and moves back to the rear of the stage. She either then leaves or it goes dark & she leaves; I don't quite recall.

Elsewhere someone has said those sitting in the front row of the stalls would be splattered with 'blood' so be warned about that also!

Thanks for the review, I also managed to see this over the weekend looks like we could have been at the same performance. I had seen a recording of the National Theatre's version of this so kind of knew what to expect, not sure if I've got a strong stomach but the violence seemed quite tame compared in this production.

The nudity has been reviewed already above and is accurate, in the third scene Grace strips she's totally naked for about 20 seconds moving from the middle of the stage to the left hand side as you look at it, then turns round to face the other way to put on underwear and jogging bottoms, when she puts her top on she keeps it on her head so she's still topless and then has a sort of melt down for about 40 seconds before she covers up.

The second nude scene is with Grace and her brother, this ones weird as they do a dance then strip each other, Grace again is facing the left hand side of the stage while this is happening before moving to the back of the hallway behind the partition facing the audience, I had the same thought at the time that the people in the stalls would not have seen the full frontal only the ones in the circle as the partition was over waist height.

Grace then get's ****d by some imaginary guards where she bangs herself against a wall until she pulls down her joggers behind the partition and simulates sex, she then climbs over the partition onto the hospital bed that's been there for the whole show still with her joggers round her ankles and with her back to the audience so you have a clear view of her backside, then as the scene progresses she turns round but with her legs bent so you can see her bush but nothing else, the scene finishes with Women the erotic dancer starting her show the lights go down on the rest of the stage and Grace pulls her joggers back up in the dark.

There is a scene where Tinker asks Women to spread her legs and play with herself but this was done facing the audience with her hand down her knickers but nothing was seen.

The final nude scene Women leaves her booth for the first time to be with Tinker, this takes place at the front of the stage to the left as you look at it with Tinker sitting facing the right side and Women siting on his lap facing the left, she removes her top Tinker had already stripped partially and then they start making love, all of this is done in the same position so if you sit on the right hand side of the audience I'm guessing you'd only see her back untill they finish and she gets off and turns round for a split second to face the right side of the stage then she walks to the back of the stage along the left hand side turns to the right and climbs onto the bed so she can get through the window and leaves the stage rear left still topless.

Comparing this production to the National Theatre there was defiantly less nudity in this one, the National Theatre had 4 male and both female actors fully nude, as for this one I was surprised that the actors protected from the nude scenes were all the men which with my experience of London this year is unheard of, Grace was the only one that stayed true to the script with full nudity, maybe having a female director helped.

As for seating I was also in the circle row A at the left of the centre block, this had good views of all the nudity especially the scene with Women as she was right below, I think the end blocks would struggle when the actors are close to the side doors on their side of the stage but would see everything else.