THE STORY: GUM. In this violent fairy tale, two cloistered sisters discover new appetites. GUM takes place in a fictional fundamentalist country, inspired by a true scandal in which young Egyptian women were rumored to have had sex with boys in cars. The explanation? Tainted gum, part of a foreign plot to undermine the virtue of traditional girls. Too outrageous to be real, too terrifying to be anything else, GUM depicts the glee and the horror of sexual awakening in a fiercely restrictive culture. Explicit sexual content.
“A beguiling, sensual, witty, impassioned, deeply moving and brightly burnished gem.” —San Francisco Examiner.
“A sexy, sharp one-act…laced with a lightness that pokes as much fun at Western commercialization as it does at Middle Eastern orthodoxy.” —The New Yorker.
“Transcends its political agenda to create a lyrical fable about sex, love, danger and virtue.” —Newsday (NY).
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Gum and The Mother of Modern Censorship.
