ROUGH TRADE: Theatre Review

WHAT: Rough Trade WHEN: 19 - 29 July 2023 WHERE: Theatre Works (Explosives Factory) WRITTEN & PERFORMED BY: Katie Pollock DIRECTED BY: Anthony Skuse LIGHTING BY: James Wallis SOUND BY: Cluny Edwards Katie Pollock - photo by Teniola Komolafe People come down pretty hard on Facebook as part of the whole 'let's hate on social media' zeitgeist but this platform has done a lot for connecting people in a positive way if you bother to really look at it. Some of those connections include buy/swap/sell groups and community groups like the Good Karma stable of sites. One fun version of that is the Rough Trade pages. Katie Pollock has decided to let us in on the culture and people who use Rough Trade in her play Rough Trade presented by Rogue Projects at Theatre Works Explosives Factory. The play begins with a bit of fun about the sex life of slugs and the double entendre of the phrase 'rough trade' which is a term used when men who are rich have sex with men of the wor