Mating in Captivity

Overview

Your last sex ed class was probably during high school and you probably didn't listen because the teacher who gave the class was some middle-aged prude who did their best to avoid any actual mention of the word sex.

Now you've blossomed into a fully functioning adult (let's pretend you are, at least), but you still have questions that you never asked in high school and that no Cosmo/M2 sealed section has truthfully answered yet.

Well, perhaps things will change for you now with Last Tapes Theatre Company's new play Mating in Captivity, a self-described "screwball comedy that brilliantly and viciously cuts to the quick of some pretty important questions about liberal ideals and middle-class morality." It's a class in sex philosophy, if you will.

The plot is simple enough: one half of a recently engaged couple (Rob) invites over a destitute, old school friend (Jacob) to stay with them for a few nights at their cramped Auckland apartment. The other half of the couple (Annie) isn't impressed, but the old school friend stays over anyway. Which is where we're guessing the sex part of the play starts to get really interesting. But who knows, you'll have to go watch it yourself to find out.