Hot And Throbbing The Play -- Summary

As I sat in the audience conversing with others, the play started…surprising to everyone. But before it began, the music was setting the mood of the room. Enter the “DJ” and “Dancer”. They’re located on opposite ends of the room. In between is the setting of a family room. I wasn’t sure what to expect, but it soon became heated.

In my opinion, the play had many angles. The one most prevalent was the woman’s ability to control the sexual encounter. From luring a man by seductive dancing to writing about erotic entertainment. The family appeared to be a middle-class white family living comfortably as well as a single-parent household along with a entrepreneur mom who worked from home, a daughter attending a parochial school, a scholarly son, and an alcoholic dad….typical family hunh?! The mom is an author facing a next-day deadline to finish another pornography or erotic novel. All while finishing, she continues to be distracted. She’s distracted by sensuous feelings for her estranged husband and young son. The daughter living a double life…good girl by day, dancer by night…using the lie of visiting a friend to get out of the house. The son spends most of his free time looking at his mom and sister through a window by standing outside the house all along stays at home to “keep his mom company“ on a Friday night. Enters the dad who clearly, by appearance, has made some improper choices but able to get a rise in desire from his ex-wife. All along the erotic fantasies continue and appear to include fondling between brother and sister, dreaming of intimacy between mother and son, father and daughter. It took through love and hate of each other but all ending with a woman’s control of the erotic behavior. As we’ve learned before, to control a man’s sexuality means