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Critical Opinions

"...... one of the year's most arresting, inventive and disturbing theatrical events."
London Evening Standard

"...... this superbly performed show (......) casts a salutory beam through the confused murk of male sexuality ...... The movement, like all the other elements, is keenly alive to what is comic in this thriving cottage industry, as well as what is sad or disturbing."
The Independent

"Best performance 1993 - in a category of its own: a combination of dance, social commentary and mountaineering, MSM brought to us by the extraordinary DV8 ...... They amused, shocked and fascinated simply by telling us the truth."
Capital Gay

"Best performance 1993 ...... MSM lifts the lid on cottaging, illicit sex at other men's conveniences."
Time Out

Reviews

The Observer
...... Peek Through Cottage Walls
Jann Parry | 3rd October 1993

Western Daily Press
...... Gay Play's Sex Focus on Public Toilets Sparks Uproar
Richard Orange | 5th October 1993 | news item

The List, Glasgow/Edinburgh
...... Toilet Training
Mark Fisher | 21st October 1993 | preview

Overall, Nottingham
...... DV8
Wayne Burrows | 4th October 1993 | preview

The Times
...... From The Well of Loneliness
Nadine Meisner | 6th October 1993

The Daily Mail
...... Dance Troupe Gets £100,000 Handout for Gay Sex Show
Vikki Orvice | 7th October 1993 | news item

The Guardian
...... Cottage Industry
Sophie Constanti | 7th October 1993

The Star
...... Gay Sex Play Cash Fury
Shan Lancaster | 7th October 1993 | news item

Nottingham Evening Post
...... Sorry Secrets of the Sad Facts of Life
Julie Nightingale | 13th October 1993

The Financial Times
...... 'MSM' by DV8
Andrew St George | 14th October 1993

Scotland on Sunday
...... Sexual Release as a Cottage Industry
Alice Bain | 17th October 1993 | preview

The Glasgow Herald
...... Cottaging Industry
Mary Brennan | 26th October 1993 | preview

Plays International
...... Cottage Industry
Simon Reade | November 1993 | preview

What's On
...... Cottage Industry
Patrick Marmion | 3rd November 1993 | preview

The Independent
...... At the Theatre of Blood and Bruises
Michael Arditti | 6th November 1993 | preview

London Evening Standard
...... Plumbing Passions Deep in the Gents
Nicholas de Jongh | 10th November 1993

The Daily Telegraph
...... The Pursuit of Love as a Cottage Industry
Charles Spencer | 11th November 1993

The Independent
...... Coming Out on the Tiles
Paul Taylor | 12th November 1993

The Financial Times
...... Exposés from the Gents
Alastair Macaulay | 13th November 1993

 

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