Strap-On

For fringereview.com. Proboscis Theatre Company, of Santa Barbara, brought two offerings to the Hollywood Fringe this year; the one-woman show "Bloody Beautiful" and this two-hander about a British court case in which a female student (Gayle Newland) was charged with sexual assault when her (female) lover of two years claimed she had always believed her to be a man. The piece starts with the two girls doing a ritualized dance, one is blind-folded, the other wears a strap-on penis. This was my third fake penis of the fringe, but the first to get the title-role. We hear the varying versions of how the deception/roleplay started through verbatim court testimony, plus some wholly invented scenes. Are these girls using their new-found freedom t... full review

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