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Theatre Review: The Fruit Trilogy
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The Fruit Trilogy
West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds
THE Vagina Monologues playwright Eve Ensler's Avocado at this venue last year explored the plight of an underage sex worker who’s seeking asylum in an unknown country. It's performed in near total darkness within a shipping container full of rotting fruit and at at one point the character wryly notes that she spends her whole life stopping avocados and cocks getting soft.
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