Can Reality Tv Guinea Pigs Solve the Gender Question? Neil Cooper On Pamela Carter's Provocative Play an Argument About Sex

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PAMELA Carter is feeling the cold. Walking through Brixton in the early autumn rush-hour, the writer of An Argument About Sex, a provocatively titled contemporary reworking of Pierre de Marivaux's 1744 comic inquiry, La Dispute, is trying to make herself heard above the sirens that screech over the traffic's roar.

If anyone else on the streets is contemplating the minefield of the sex wars as they pass each other by, it isn't immediately clear. Carter, however, is unfazed, and riffs on everything from economics and the recession to the evolutionary theory that has in part inspired the text written for designer and director Stewart Laing's Untitled company in a co-production with Tramway and The Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh.

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Can Reality Tv Guinea Pigs Solve the Gender Question? Neil Cooper On Pamela Carter's Provocative Play an Argument About Sex

"It's about love and it's about sex, " Carter says of her response to Marivaux's play. "I wanted to make something that was a very real discussion about sex and gender in a way that's also very personal to me. When Stewart first brought the play to me a couple ...

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