More than anything else Terry Johnson has adapted and directed successful film to stage productions.  One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, The Graduate and Rain Man.  They usually were faithful to the well loved film rather than innovative stagings.  The exception for me was his Hitchcock Blonde, an original play, which I think would revive well.

Is it a reflexion of our hedonist society that sex is the last sensual pleasure to be fully commercialised?  Not with sex toys, or porn videos, or Ann Summers’s sexy clothing but with facilitating with those who want to have sex in public, with swingers and spouse swappers or just to watch. 

Alex (Jason Merrells) and his much younger girl friend Hetty (Molly Osborne) are hosting a sex party by invitation only in their luxury open plan Islington kitchen.  It is ostensibly a heterosexual party and the first couple to arrive are a grumpy Jake (John Hopkins) and a nervous, jittery Gilly (Lisa Dwan).  It is Jake and Gilly’s first time and they express a wish to stay as a couple.  “We’re not swappers or swingers, just curious . . . with a small c.”  Next are a rich American Jeff (American actor Timothy Hutton) and his unhappy wife Magdalena (Amanda Ryan), an outspoken Russian woman.  He plays poker games where his Maserati is on the table.