Be warned: Sophia Chetin-Leuner’s provocatively titled drama is brutally sad rather than sexy. It features a harrowing central performance, more emotionally than physically exposing, from Ambika Mod (star of This is Going to Hurt and Netflix’s One Day) as Ani Sandhu, a young expert on Milton who is also addicted to violent, misogynistic pornography.
There are graphic descriptions of extreme acts and scenes where the dynamics of real or fantasy sex are evoked – one of which is the most transgressive I’ve experienced on stage since Mark Ravenhill’s Shopping and F*cking in this very theatre in 1996. Which is itself telling. Half of UK adults watched porn in 2020 according to a snapshot Ofcom survey, yet it’s rarely treated as anything other than a dirty secret or a comic foible on stage.
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