Sexual revolutionaries!

I received this letter from a well-meaning audience member. Funny, the concern about the legal ramifications of our show. I thought back through the show and wondered if we mention pedophilia. In the teacher piece, you have no way of knowing the student's age. And crimes against women? I wonder if the S&M piece is what the letter refers to. But I am delighted that whoever sent this email loved the show and wants to see it made into a movie. I like the idea that you can't ban a movie. But I also think that the reason this piece works is BECAUSE it's theatre, it's a live experience, the audience plays a huge role in creating the show moment by moment and night by night.

Hi Eleanor,


I saw the performance on Saturday. Outstanding! It was a GREAT performance, and important work. Let me wish you every success for the future.

A couple of suggestions:
- a movie of the play? Something that might help bring the play to a wider audience. It might also be combined with a documentary - so that we have interviews, etc. in the beginning, and then a recording of one performance afterwards.
- publishing the text into a book.

Finally, one possible caution:
There's a sequence in the play where an actor says that no one can prohibit one's thoughts and fantasies. That's true, but in some places, it can be illegal to take those fantasies out of our minds and commit them into any form of media - such as photos or even words.

These efforts are, of course, well meaning - I believe anything involving Nazism is illegal in Germany. However, in Canada, I have heard that anything having the remotest connection to things like pedophelia or "crimes against women" may be considered illegal - even an entry in a personal diary. There are no objective yardsticks and it's basically up to the police/prosecutors to decide whether or not to prosecute. Since there might thus be a few issues with some of the sequences in the play, it may be good to check with lawyers in Canada.

Alas there are many, many countries which do not have the protections to free speech that are protected in the US Constitution. May be that's why I think a movie or film might be a good idea - they can always ban a performance but they can't stop a movie or a book.

Thank you.