My overall impression
The only way to get away with a show with this much nudity and simulated sex is to do it extremely well: for the performances to have heart and vulnerability in the midst of the nakedness, for the direction to be tight, for the script to be provocative and stimulating beyond the obvious. Unfortunately, this just wasn’t the case. I had fun watching the spectacle for a bit, but at the end of the day, I go to the theater to be nourished and challenged, or at least entertained, and unfortunately Boudoir didn’t satisfy any of those needs. The acting is hit or miss. I don’t care about the story. And though almost nothing is left up to the imagination, no one is TRULY naked up there. That said, it is WILD to see — and some of the visual pictures they created with light and shadow and color were really quite stunning. If they’d done it in their native tongue with subtitles and concentrated more on the visual aesthetics, perhaps I would have felt differently.
