We Want You to Watch
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| We Want You to Watch | |
|---|---|
| Written by | Alice Birch and RashDash |
| Date premiered | 2015 |
| Place premiered | Temporary Theatre (Royal National Theatre), London |
| Subject | Pornography |
We Want You to Watch is a 2015 play by Alice Birch developed with the theatre company, RashDash. The play is a feminist critique of pornography. We Want You to Watch premiered at the National Theatre's Temporary Theatre under the direction of Caroline Steinbeis.
RashDash, a feminist theatre company composed of Helen Goalen and Abbi Greenland,[1] received funding from the West Yorkshire Playhouse to work with a playwright in developing a new work. They brought in Alice Birch to collaborate.[2] We Want You to Watch was commissioned by The National Theatre and supported using public funding from the Arts Council England.[3]
Plot summary
Over the course of the play, two women named Pig and Sissy try to eradicate internet pornography.[4] Pig and Sissy use extreme means to ban pornography and mitigate its harmful effects including kidnapping the Queen to get her to ban pornography and attempting to make an American hacker turn off the internet.[5] Though the play critiques pornography, its characters maintain that it is "pro-sex."[6]