A darkly comic, claustrophobic tale of voyeurism and sexual politics.
First performed at Bewley’s Café Theatre, Dublin, this play, by exciting new (and award-winning) writer, Jodi Gray is a darkly comic, claustrophobic tale of voyeurism and sexual politics. The play is set in Dublin, in the present day. Caitlin and May, two Dublin women, are sitting at the window: it emerges that Caitlin is the tenant, May a kind of interloper.
They’re there because the flat’s living room window overlooks another living room window where the curtains are never drawn: it belongs to the unnamed man who has ‘had’ them both, and is fully occupied having lots of other women on a speedy conveyor belt. And Caitlin and May are busy watching the antics: it’s (it seems) suitable revenge for having discovered that Our Hero videoed them both on the job.
Peeping can work both ways, and these two are bent on revenge…