" 'Conversations After Sex' casts a neutral eye on its lead character's possibly pleasurable, if largely joyless, grapplings, but it finds plenty of comedy in them as well as a pervasive sorrow. It ends with the most tentative of embraces, something we haven't seen previously"
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A bigger question which might come to mind is why does a person choose an anonymous “quickie” over getting to know someone first? Are they looking for validation, or avoiding fears of loneliness, commitment, or rejection? Are they wearing anonymity like armor? Such thoughts come to mind as Mark O’Halloran’s swift and engaging play “Conversations After Sex” unfolds, a collection of scenes in which the unnamed character of “She” (played by Kate Stanley Brennan) engages in post-coital dialogues with several different men she has met on-line, in bars or in passing (all portrayed by Fionn Ó Loingsigh).
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“Staged with simplicity and power by Tom Creed, O’Halloran’s play is thought-provoking, sad, and thoroughly engaging...both actors have so thoroughly embodied their characters that one can only wish them the best.”
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