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Reviews: Pleasure and Pain: Thomson's sexual adventures are pleasure without the pain
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PLEASURE AND PAIN Citizens' Theatre, Glasgow
WITH Mark Thomson poised to take the reins at Edinburgh's Royal
Lyceum Theatre in the New Year, this piece, based upon the life and
works of Guy de Maupassant, is a fine opportunity to remind ourselves
of the young dramatist's abilities as both a director and a writer.
The life of Maupassant, the energetic heterosexual, scourge of
French "moral decency" and prodigious "industrialist of literature",
is an inherently dramatic one. His brief 43 years on this planet were
characterised, as the play's title suggests, by a never-ending search
for sexual ...
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