ScotsGay Magazine

*****

A couple of weeks ago I naively assumed that prostitution was one of those things that, at least in some places, the Scots did so much better than the English. Hell, there is a "Sauna" opposite my flat and it is instructive to look down on (in an entirely literal and not metaphorical since), the arrivals and departures there. (Why did "comings and goings" not seem right in the last sentence?) How wrong can you be?

This play presents some hard truths about women who end up as prostitutes, the way they are looked down on, and the needs (usually drugs) that force them into their way of life. It explores some alternatives to the way we do things in the UK but comes up with no solutions. What emerges is that a group of vulnerable women exist in our society who are left, as the title implies, unprotected. Sometimes theatre at its best can find a way of addressing issues that would not otherwise be challenged. This is such theatre.

Martin Powell

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