CLUB . . . You're wrong and you don't even know it !

I just got through some post from the Rep and they have an offer on at the moment where you get £5 off bookings. Also, the play Celestina is only £5 for any ticket if you book before 1st Sept. I'm thinking about going and shall ask Rachael if she fancies seeing it and when she's free. It runs Thu 16 Sep 2004 - Sat 25 Sep 2004. And is described thus:

Celestina, the notorious madam of the local whorehouse will do anything for money. Wise to the delicate nature of those in love or lust, she is a devious manipulator of those in need.

When an arrogant young fool falls obsessively in love with a beautiful woman, he employs Celestina to seduce her on his behalf using any means necessary. This service comes at a high price to the young man and at great cost to all those involved.

Customer Advice
Celestina´s associates are whores, pimps and degenerates. In her world anything goes - and it does...
Expect graphic scenes of a sexual nature, acts of violence and male nudity.

A review in the observer says:

In contrast, Celestina is all too violently alive: wild, jumbled, jagged. In his latest piece of banditry on the classics, Catalan director Calixto Bieito has set Fernando de Rojas's 15th-century tale in a 21st-century bar. The stage is bright with red and yellow light, like an animated Spanish flag. Television screens show a bullfight (and someone wanders around in a bull's head). In this Buñuelised version, nearly everyone is ultra-desirable, witless or demonic.

As Celestina the procuress, Kathryn Hunter, shaven-headed in a pinstripe trousersuit, pulls off one of her shape-changing tours de force, hopping around with a crutch, voracious, opportunistic, demonic rather than celestial, but always full of gusto. You'd be hard put to say that Bieito exactly makes sense of this Romeo and Juliet of a story, but then sense isn't central to a play about the derangement caused by love. Energy, both cruel and ecstatic, is, and this production, which transfers to the Birmingham Rep, has that in droves.

PS: I like these text boxes getting smaller and thinner - how thin can we get them?