Sweetmeat
The Old Red Lion
 

A WARNING statement opens Ivo de Jager’s Sweetmeat at the Old Red Lion, with a disembodied voice telling us that the play we are about to see contains sex, nudity, drugs, pain, internet pornography, violence and cannibalism. 

That about sums it up! 

It’s a two-hander, written, directed, acted and generally created by an acknowledged “queer team.” It tells the story of two men who happen upon each other as flatmates only to find that they hold symbiotic and extreme fantasies when it comes to sex and sado-masochistic physical expression. Sigmund, who is of Swedish origin and has just broken up with his (female) fiancee, finds sex itself never enough, while Christian has been shaped and moulded by his wacky mother who killed herself in front of him when he was a child.