The HongKong Crisis Gregor Benton Pluto Press £3.95 MASTERPIECES is a play about pornography. It starts with a porn merchant describing with satisfaction the profitability of his company, how harmless his wares are, the good it does 'the public' to be freed from the puritan values of earlier times.
The play then examines the effect of pornography on women's lives and mens' reactions to pornography and their attitudes to women, in both public and personal relationships. This is particularly shown through the character Ravena who at the beginning of the play backs up her husDare are ourer men against Yvonne by saying Lal vull o Halls all possibly beneficial to the rustrated 'man in the street'.
Reviewed by Helen MacDonald Then she starts realising the connections in the way men see women and the way that they treat women in practice. At the ena or lne play she is on trial for murder, after she her, under a tube train. Masterpieces has been described as an 'uncompromising angry play' Well it did make me angry, but a lot of that anger finished up being directed at the play itself. Tes Is Dower does show some positive unlaces or women - Doin Ravena and Yvonne fight back. But whilst Master. pieces showed the horrific suatuls unlal women are