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Dateline: 15th January, 2006
S&M and Poster Theft Liverpool theatre company Strange Roads has turned to the North West sado-masochist community for help with its latest production I Found Her Tied To My Bed. Based on a true story, the play focuses on the relationship between careworkers Jan and Beth. Bored with their jobs at the nursing home, desperate for stimulation, they plunge themselves into a dark world of fear and torture where their exploration of danger, domination and eroticism spirals murderously out of control. The production, by American playwright Jeff Tabnick, has been described as "disturbing, quirky and edgy as hell" and contains several scenes of violent sexuality for which careful planning was needed. Director Ged Quayle says "The safety of our actresses was our primary concern. When it comes to potentially dangerous sexual play no-one knows more about safety than the S&M community." Actress Alison Faith, who plays bad girl Jan, says, "When I first read the script and realised I was going to be torturing another actress on stage I was worried about what could go wrong, but with the experts on hand it's become second nature!" Research for the play has included visiting fetish clubs, and consultation with dominatrix Mistress Pink. Mistress Pink says, "I was delighted to work with a theatre company who aren't afraid to explore the darker side of sex. As the Government seems determined to criminalise anyone who practises sado-masochism it's vital that we make people aware that we are concerned with safety; what we do is safe, sane and consensual and we certainly don't exploit the vulnerable." I Found Her Tied To My Bed will play the Liverpool Unity from Tuesday 31st January to Thursday 2nd February, and the Warrington Pyramid on Saturday 11th March. No one knows how well the show will sell, but the company is worrid that the word might not be spread far enough - because students keep stealing their posters! Since advertising began, the company has had to replace over forty posters around Liverpool. Director Ged Quayle says, "To begin with we had a paranoid frenzy that another company was trying to nobble us, but the posters in all the usual actor's haunts are intact. It's the posters in student haunts that are going missing. We didn't think the poster was that wonderful but it looks like students disagree with us." "We were lucky enough to get sponsorship so the posters aren't costing us that much, but it means someone has to go out and replace them, which is a waste of time, loss of the posters is damaging our advertising, and if nothing else it's costing us a fortune in Blu-Tac! "We're flattered, but in the end posters are an important part of our advertising. If people really want a poster, get in touch with us through our website, send us the postage and we'll send you a poster. We'll even autograph it for you!" Strange Roads can be reached at www.strangeroads.org.uk Please note that all three Archive indices are very long and will therefore take some time to download.
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