Skin Flick: Sweet in a Silly Way. Comment by Patrick Langston

A male actor’s hand on a female actor’s breast? The F word? A play about a cash-strapped married couple making a porn film? It’s sure not the old days at OLT.

Even so, this comedy by Norm Foster seems so far not to have driven any patrons from the theatre at intermission. And really, how could it? It’s funny, fluidly directed (Venetia Lawless in her directorial debut) and well-acted (the cast includes Kenny Hayes, bespectacled and in a conservative suit, as the most unlikely porn star ever). And while suggestive in a tongue-in-cheek way, it’s not offensive, and the stability of married life – albeit occasionally fraught – is at its core.

Skin Flicks is light fare, its characters all likeable but without much depth, its plot hardly credible. But it is kind of sweet in a silly way, and OLT could have done worse than to launch its 101st season with this show.

Skin Flick  by Norm  Foster

Ottawa Little Theatre

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