Main content

Soliciting temptation

Available Formats:

  • Accessibility:
    • Customizable display
    • Table of contents navigation
    • Described images
    • ​Print page numbers
    • Heading navigation
    Publisher:
    Playwrights Canada Press, 2015

Details:

  • Author: Shields, Erin
    Date:
    Created
    2015
    Summary:

    In a sweaty hotel room, a lonely businessman and a young woman meet for sex. Somewhere between reality and fantasy, the sex becomes talk and the talk becomes dangerous. Nothing is off limits in this battle of morality, economics and desire. This witty, dark and sexually charged new play by Governor General's Award-winner Erin Shields shines a light on the complexities of sex tourism and our preconceptions about love.&nbsp&nbspFrom the Governor General's Literary Award-winning author of If We Were Birds comes a fierce battle between integrity and desire.&nbsp&nbsp"Erin Shields Soliciting Temptation is full of surprises. It unfolds in a series of narrative and character reversals... The season's best new Canadian play.""Shields is the real thing.""Bold, Momentous, Sublime: The best thing about playwright Erin Shields' gripping psychological thrill ride is that you don't have to be on either side of a debate to enjoy the structurally sound story vehicle. Fraught with the unpredictable, this is the kind of play that reminds you how filthy the brine is at the bottom of a blocked drain when the morally impermissible goes unchecked. [Soliciting Temptation] unites the heart and mind for a new understanding of human behaviour."

    Subject(s): Sex tourism
    Original Publisher: [Place of publication not identified], Playwrights Canada Press
    Language(s): English
    ISBN: 9781770913356, 1770913351