Oh! Calcutta - Where it all began for us

Our obsession, for want of a better word, with stage nudity began in 2001 at university. We were both in the drama society and someone thought it would be fun to put on a production of Oh! Calcutta as xmas show. I hadn't heard of it before was soon told about the amount of nudity thats involved. It was intended to shock audiences back in the 70's and we took that on board and tried to bring it more up to date.

In the first couple of rehearsals we all realised just how tricky it was to pull off some of the scenes, bear in mind at this time we were all 18-21 year olds so hormones were running riot. There were 13 of us, 6 guys and 7 girls and we were pretty much all totally naked for the full hour long performance. Suffice to say all the guys found it hard (no pun intended) to perform with the girls whilst trying to keep it down. The chorus line scene from the end which we decided to keep in was almost impossible for me to do wthout getting an erection, being grinded into from both sides by girls who you kinda fancy, it wasn't easy. After the first couple of weeks of rehearsals we all kind of calmed down and just got on with it but what an experience it was, really gave me a love for stage nudity, seeing audiences reactions to it, the buzz of it all. fantastic.