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By: Liz Duffy Adams

Nancan Boogie Productions, Winnipeg, MB

07/19/2011 9:03 PM | Comments: 0 (including replies) Our Rating: Your Average Rating:

Alloway Hall (Venue 4), to Sunday

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Drawing clever parallels between the 1960s sexual revolution and the 1660s Restoration period, this comedy (with elements of drama and farce) features some of the best comedic acting you’ll see at the fringe this year. This is real acting, with fabulous diction, in a well-written play that happens to be a comedy.

The story follows Aphra Behn (Nan Fewchuk), a spy and lover to King Charles II (Rob McLaughlan), as she rises from debtor’s prison to become a celebrated playwright, with some stops along the way for intrigue, double-crossing, farcical chases and a few bedroom romps, both with Charles and her female friend and lover, Nell Gwynne (Laura Olafson). For once, bisexual interaction between women is refreshingly presented not as a shock device, but naturally, as part of the story. (Actually, everyone is after everyone in this play. And with a cast this good-looking, you believe it.)

It’s sexy, it’s fun, and the hour flies by.

— Janice Sawka

From the official Fringe Festival program:

What if I told you one of the most prolific writers of the Restoration Period was a bisexual and a proponent of free love? What if I told you that writer was also a spy? What if I told you that spy was also a woman? Join us for a hot night of espionage, sex and scribbling with Aphra Behn. Directed by Debbie Patterson.

Recommended For: Mature Audience

Length: 60 MIN

Tickets: $10

Warnings: Herbal Cigarettes

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