Review by anonymous
June 13, 2016What I liked
It’s an immersive presentation. You are advised ahead of time that nudity is required and you should bring a bag for your clothes and a towel to sit on. When you arrive, you’re greeted by casually naked people and directed to a well-lit theater space where everybody is getting undressed as a nude woman in the stage area reassures you “I’ll be here, nobody’s gonna touch your stuff.”
Nude and carrying your towel, you walk past the snack bar (free, of course, nobody has any cash on them) and you walk into the other theater, find a seat, lay down your towel and sit. The lights go down, the warm-up guy comes out, naked of course, and does some casual stand-up, just person-to person, the fact that we are all naked not mentioned or acknowledged, just a fact like the air we breathe.
The play starts. A man and a woman, on a beach, her in a sundress, him in casual shirt and shorts. DRESSED. And THEY are the ones who look weird, inappropriate, out of place. The transformation is complete.
The play is short, but it gets to the point quickly and economically. When the woman says she usually goes to the secluded part of the beach and takes her time telling the man why, we all know why because we’re already there on the nude beach with her. When the third character walks by, nude, complaining that there are no bathrooms “on the naturist side,” the man FINALLY catches on.
What I didn't like
The play is short, and seems kind of thin, like a long SNL skit. The performers know this, and lead a post-play discussion of social nudity (which unfortunately didn’t get to the reactions of first-timers because the discussion went elsewhere) followed by a musical performance that adds an extra bit of entertainment to the show.
I didn’t like leaving the mutually supportive environment and getting dressed and leaving.
My overall impression
A good introduction to social nudity for the uninitiated.
