‘I would love you to rearrange my insides.” It’s a shocking line that would stand out in an Edinburgh fringe show but belongs to OnlyFans content creator Bonnie Blue, whose invitation to more than 1,000 men to have sex with her over 12 hours is the subject of a Channel 4 documentary. In actor-writer Issy Knowles’ monologue, the setup is similar: on a stage dominated by a bed and littered with condoms, Pollie arrives in a blue silk dressing gown to meet a thousand subscribers as she grants them each a freebie.
Pollie is given her own queasy lines of enticement to her fans. But how do you satirise a phenomenon – sex as competitive sport – that is already so extreme in nature? Knowles humorously deadpans Pollie’s insistence that she finds her enterprise erotic, saying how sexy it is to oversee hundreds of legal waivers for the men. Pollie’s discovery that her first visitor is above the age of consent is played as comic frustration, though the question of the character’s predatory behaviour is not deeply pursued. Wearing fake plastic buttocks and breasts, Knowles trains a steely gaze and fixed smile on the audience, who are given the choice to wear balaclavas, like the men queueing for their turn, yet the scattering of masked theatregoers adds little to the atmosphere.
