Porn Crackers

You see the letters and numbers every time you watch a film - U, 12A, 15 etc, flashing up on the screen. But for Sarah and Charlie our two film classifiers it's not all romantic comedies and action films, in fact very little of it is, it is mostly porn and hard-core porn at that. They must stay professional, no emotions or personal opinions allowed here, but for one of them at least it becomes too much to endure. Add some romantic heat and the film viewing booth becomes a pressure cooker. This serious comedy is based on the writer's Jan Woolf's own time as a film examiner in 2001. It was first performed at the Hackney Empire in 2009 to acclaim. The play was revived last year in response to themes raised in the Netflix series Adolescence. ★★★★★ 'A Wee Cracker. In the era of Jeffrey Epstein, grooming gangs, child abuse, and open internet access to depravity of all kinds, nothing could be more topical.' Morning Star