The End Of Sex (Or What's Wrong With Mom)
by Gay Walch
The play opens on married couple Nancy and Ken Keller arguing about the moral responsibility they have toward their overnight guests -- a 19-year-old couple. Nancy believes that it’s their responsibility as older adults to provide boundaries for young people, particularly when it comes to sex. Ken believes Nancy’s views are old-fashion and wrong. This quickly leads to areas of conflict within their own sexual...
The play opens on married couple Nancy and Ken Keller arguing about the moral responsibility they have toward their overnight guests -- a 19-year-old couple. Nancy believes that it’s their responsibility as older adults to provide boundaries for young people, particularly when it comes to sex. Ken believes Nancy’s views are old-fashion and wrong. This quickly leads to areas of conflict within their own sexual life, which is then further complicated when their grown daughter and son-in-law show up for dinner. Both couples find themselves in a charged, potentially de-stabilizing conflict. The play wrestles with how normalized sexual mores encourage certain power arrangements, specifically focusing on what happens when one woman questions her own collusion within those arrangements. Some questions explored include: Who gets to be a credible witness to their own experience, who doesn’t get it, and who doesn’t even know they don’t have it -- within the dynamics of sexual politics, gender accommodation, collusion and entitlement.
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