About the Project
Chloe, a university student and aspiring dancer aged 20, is sexually assaulted in 2020. She tells her best friend, Lola, that morning: ‘I feel like a dusty new woman’. This ‘dusty’ woman meets Damian, exceedingly wealthy and twice her age, on a sugar dating site later that week. Chloe leaves university and her best friend behind, as she and Damian quickly become embroiled in a torrid and even brutal love affair. Action jumps between 2020 and 2025, and London and France. It is a contemporary tale of people discovering their self-possession in an environment that sexualises, minimises and commodifies them. It is as much a story of friendship and how it endures betrayal as it is a story of romance, fraudulence and abuse. Quick paced, witty, sharp and honest, Pure Woman is an exciting fifty minutes of theatre. The play is composed of theatrical vignettes, punctuated by interludes of poetry, music and movement. It is loosely inspired by Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the D’Urbervilles: A Pure Woman.
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