Nude Scene

Saw this at a theatre in Edinburgh over the weekend and thought it was a fantastic idea. Basically it is a play within a play type thing where there is a nude scene between 2 of the actors - a guy and girl. There is only 3 people in the performance the actor, actress and director and the play is about the actor and actress becoming comfortable being naked around each other and rehearsing the scene.

The play starts with the director Cara, who is an older woman telling the actor and actress (who are in their mid 20's) to strip naked and get to know eaxh others bodies. It's a fabulous opening to a play and sets the tone perfectly. The actress, Zoe, is beautiful and undresses very sexily. Not thats its supposed to be oversexed, just the way she does it is great and the clothes she is wearing helps too. She takes her top off and stands in her bra until Mike, the actor takes his top off. They smile at each other and Mike begins to loosen his belt, as he does this Zoe steps out of her heels and unzips her skirt. Mike takes his trousers and shoes off and Zoe does the same with her skirt. She is now standing wearing only her underwear and a sexy pair of tights which she then peels off. Finally under direction from Cara they both remove their underwear and stand facing each other naked.

For the remainder of the play neither of them puts a stitch of clothing back on, Cara takes turns of pointing out features of both their bodies, which includes a complete review of both Mike's penis and Zoe's breasts and then invites both Mike and Zoe to touch each other, telling them they have to be comfortable with this and not allow for any surprises when they perform. You could tell both actors were a bit reserved about this but it played out beautifully.

Cara then leads them both on a conversation about sex and turn on's telling them to get everything out in the open. As Zoe begins to talk about her love for being tied up Mike tries to cover himself up, supposedly getting an erection and admitting hearing girls talk about sex is a big turn on for him. Cara tells him to move his hands away and allow her and Zoe (and everyone in the theatre) to see his penis, she then kneels in front of him and talks to his genitals, very explicitly about her own sex life, and her own fetishes. Every time Mike tries to cover his stuff she slaps his hand out of the way. its turns into quite a comical scene, dunno if he was supposed to or not but the actor playing Mike did get semi hard at one point thought only for minute.

After all the talking and touching excersises Cara tells the actors to carry on being nude through the rest of ther afternoon which involves them eating their lunch together, making phone calls, and just generally chatting. It's weird but it does kind of put everyone at ease and you suddenly get the point in the whole thing, the nudity becomes irrelevant, its almost as if you dont notice it anymore.

When Cara comes back in she has a bag with her telling them its a surprise, she opens it up and brings out Twister! They both smile and agree to play, Cara leads the game and spins the wheel and soon Mike and Zoe are entwined with each other on the twister board. Cara then talks at them again about how they fell being naked and so close with each other, they both accept they are now fine with the nudity at which point she tells them they can stand up. In doing this Zoe is all smiles and they chat away, Cara notes that Zoe now seems completely comfortable with it all, then turns to Mike, commenting on the fact that he is soft telling him she is now convinced he will be able to perform in the nude without any "accidents"

The lights dim and the play ends with the 3 actors coming out, amazingly Mike and Zoe are still naked as they come out to take their bows, i'd never seen any actors do that before, it was quite powerful. A great message in the play about becoming at ease with nudity and a play i'd love to see develop into a bigger production.