It is hard to ignore the buzz around Roleplay, which is star-producer Francesca Moody’s latest fringe find (previous wins: Baby Reindeer and Fleabag) and has queues around the corner. An erotic dance intro fulfils the promise of its racy poster but does the production actually live up to its hype?
In the end, yes, even if at first it seems to be marketed on exactly the thing it seeks to critique. Australian writer-performer Hannah Reilly’s one-woman show features Danielle, or Danni, whose podcast (tagline: “hey slut”) is near-ambushed by a producer who promises her the world, if only she will sex up its content. She does so to become a “slutfluencer”, her product falling somewhere between sex-positive feminism and an OnlyFans page.
