STEVE ANDREW enjoys an account of the many communities that flourished independently of and in resistance to the empires of old
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Eros
The White Bear, Kennington
AS EVER, the London fringe is awash with new plays, with most under-resourced and some derivative.
But many are packed with creative energy and a passion for topical issues and one such is Kevin Mandry’s intense and thought-provoking three-hander Eros. Unlike now, when online imagery and thinking shapes our lives, the play is set in the mid-90s when the internet, in its infancy, was only a shadow of what is to come.
While it may look at first glance like a simple “Me Too’ story, it goes beyond the casual abuse of women to explore the terrible impact on men who seek only perfection and gratification to the detriment of any real and loving relationships.
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