Horse-Play promises the ride of your life, but does it deliver? – review
On paper, Horse-Play sounds like a lot of fun. It focuses on the lives of Tim (David Ames) and Tom (Jake Maskall) who have been together for a decade.
Their sex life has become somewhat stale and they decide they’d like to spice things up a bit. Enter Karl (Matt Lapinkas), a male escort the couple have found online; the trio role-play a superhero sexual fantasy until a series of mishaps results in them finding themselves locked in the villain’s lair overnight.
The tagline of the show is “they’re about to have the ride of their lives…” so we were expecting something exciting, dangerous, a little risqué perhaps.
Unfortunately it fell rather short of expectations. There are two keys issues: first of all, for a play whose narrative centres on the sexual desires and fantasies of gay men, it all seems extremely vanilla.
