Trade

Review by: Paul Towers, 12/10/19

Trade by debbie tucker green  (her specified lack of capitalisation)

A New Perspectives production

Upstairs @ The Western, 12 October 2019

“three women share a surprising connection.”

debbie tucker green is a multi award winning writer and director for film, theatre, TV and radio.

Trade was originally staged by the RSC in 2005 and tackles the unusual subject of sex tourism from a female perspective.

Three disparate women meet on a beach in the Caribbean and, as opinionated people do, talk over each other, lord it over each other and argue their sides.

The Regular woman, Gracy Goldman, holidays to the same place every year; the Local woman, Sharla Smith, is a local woman who plies her trade of hair braiding to tourists on the beach; the Novice woman, Rachel Summers, is a young Londoner who has saved all year for a possibly once-in-a-lifetime holiday of sun, sea and sex.

As the sniping and jostling for social position continues it emerges that all three share a surprising connection that levels them

With uncompromising language and, at times, difficult to understand accents, the story of the three women unfolds.

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