UK Arts International presents

Virgins

Touring 2008

Small to medium scale

How do you explore your sexuality when you are still living at home with your parents?
How do your parents sustain their love life with you in the house?
And why do we find it so difficult to talk about?

When Jack wakes up on the front lawn of his house one Sunday morning, he can't remember much of the previous night's party. He had sex with Sadie - and then what?

John Retallack's new play after the international sell-out Hannah & Hanna explores the minefield of sexuality both for teenagers and their co-habitees - their parents!

an unpretentious, surprisingly accurate, gem of a show – The List ****, Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2006

this little show has an unpretentious charm and directness, taking a subject that might easily have been treated like a government advertisement for safer adolescent sex into a knotty examination of the family itself, our attitudes towards sex and pleasure, and what happens when the shine rubs off a marriage and we forget both the thrill of sexual encounter or indeed what it was like to be young. - The Guardian

John Retallack's Virgins works wonderfully precisely because it is so simple; an immensely likeable piece of writing that anyone with fond – or perhaps not so fond – memories of the riddles of middle-class family life can connect with. - Metro