High jinks intact in '70s Brit script

THERE'S nothing like sex to draw an audience; but will the mere hint of sex toys titillate audiences exposed to plays such as Vagina Monologues and books such as Fifty Shades of Grey?

Possibly so. "Because there are still issues we don't talk about in polite company," says Alistair Cameron, who's directing London's longest-running comedy play No Sex, Please - We're British in Singapore. The play is being produced by the British Theatre Playhouse. "We're all still a bit coy about sex, aren't we? So the play retains the same humour even though the world has changed."

Lead actress Sarah Jayne Butler however thinks that's why they're performing the play as it was written and set in the 1970s. "We've to keep it in the '70s for some of the jokes to work," she says, adding though that the humour in it is universal and ageless. "These sorts of jokes have lasted from Shakespeare's days... everyone from everywhere will laugh at the same things."