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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Arifa Akbar

Stars: An Afrofuturist Space Odyssey review – mission to Planet Orgasm

Debra Michaels (Mrs) in Stars: An Afrofuturist Space Odyssey at Brixton House, London
On a lonely planet … Debra Michaels (Mrs) in Stars: An Afrofuturist Space Odyssey at Brixton House, London. Photograph: Sanaa Abstrakt

Do not underestimate the gravity of the medical complaint on which this play pivots. Mrs (Debra Michaels) has never had an orgasm and would like to experience it now, in her middle years. Her GP makes the mistake of dismissing it, reminding her that she is in menopause and packing her off for a dementia test.

But this quest for the most elusive thing in her life is not whimsy, nor the middle-class sexual bohemianism of Miranda July’s novel All Fours, although Mojisola Adebayo’s script might be considered an offshoot of “hot-flush noir” but with radical edges around sexuality, gender, class and race.

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