The Girlfriend Experience

Synopsis

A true-life play about friendship, heartbreak and business enterprise... in a seaside brothel.

Tessa has set up a business: a brothel where mature women specialise in offering the 'Girlfriend Experience', a surprisingly caring and sympathetic service.

As the women stoically strive to make a living in a competitive market, their personal lives start to crumble.

Will they ever have loving relationships outside work and enjoy being girlfriends themselves?

<i>The Girlfriend Experience</i> continues the verbatim-theatre technique Alecky Blythe developed in <i>Come Out Eli</i> and <i>Cruising</i>.

The play is created entirely from conversations recorded inside an actual brothel, edited and replicated on stage in all their uncanny verisimilitude.

'funny, touching and absolutely filthy... a hugely entertaining eye-opener of a show' - <i>Telegraph</i>

'poignant, sometimes disturbing, often riotously funny' - <i>The Times</i>

'These women aren't patronised or made into gargoyles: their sentences are gorgeous.

They simply reveal their lives.

What more could you want from the theatre?' - <i>Observer</i>