An Apple a Day

Journal-Online.co.uk – Anna Fenton

A risk assessor theologian goes to visit a transsexual prostitute with a special request: he wants her to eat a Cox’s Orange Pippin apple and burp in his face. Though it sounds like the beginning of a bizarre joke, this latest play by Jo Clifford has a lot more to offer than facile humour.

Set in a feminine boudoir, complete with draped scarves and skimpy underwear, the play opens on the scantily dressed transsexual (David Walshe) fussing and strutting theatrically across the stage, spraying herself with her perfume atomizer…