Expectations of reading Pornography

This is quite a gripping title for a blogpost if you've never heard of the successful play by Simon Stephens named Pornography. However the title is not a hint for the contents of the plot in this play, instead it is crammed with unassigned lines and has no named characters. This can be a challenge for an ordinary reader, coping with little context and direction through the play. However, after being on a theatre course for two terms, I see this not as a challenge, but a vast array of possibilities. Here we are given words and stories that we can interpret how we wish on stage and the importance of character can be implemented or simply disregarded. It gives the possibility for bleak hard-hitting naturalistic or completely fantastical absurdism and even the rare chance of doing both.

Other than this, I know little about this play other than it's focus on the year 2012, a key year for many reasons (that I will confirm with research). I intend to give a full review on this play after reading it twice, since a play with such possibility deserves to be read twice and hope that it will be as good as another play I've read that Stephens has adapted, named the Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time. After this, I will conduct as much research as possible to create a performance, clearly not at the level of the previous play reinterpreted by Frantic Assembly into a physical theatre masterpiece.

Whatever happens, continue checking my blog for updates!