Decadence
Decadence Author: Steven Berkoff
First Performance: 1981, London
Published: 1981
Genre: Com. in 14 scenes; free verse, some rhymed
Setting: Expensive homes, opera, and restaurant, England, c.1980
Cast: 2 performers, playing 2m, 2f
Upper-class Steve Forsyth visits his upmarket mistress Helen, but warns that his wife Sybil is having him followed by a private detective Les. Played by the same actors, Les reports to Sybil, who is lower class but rich from her father's hard work. She is having an affair with Les. Steve and Helen talk about their loveless childhoods and his homosexual experiences at public school. They leave to go to the theatre to see ‘all those dishy soldiers in the raw with cocks a-flashing everywhere |…to shock us pink and crave for more’ (almost certainly a reference to Brenton's...
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