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The stage, bare except for three chairs,
represents the interior and surroundings of the Wicksteeds' house in
Hove. There, in a satirical merry-go-round, we meet a family and its
friends and acquaintances for whom the determination to put sex and
the satisfactions of the body (or corpus) before everything else is
the ruling passion of their lives. The permissive society is taken
to task in a farcical comedy in which the characters, sterotypes as
their names (e.g. Canon Throbbing) suggests, move - and indeed dance
- in and out through a maze of mistaken identities and sexual
encounters. As Wicksteed says, at the close, "He whose lust lasts,
lasts longest." |
