Age of Arousal

by Linda Griffiths

It’s a time of passion and confusion. Virtue is barely holding down its petticoats. People are bursting their corsets with unbridled desire. It’s 1885, and the typewriter and the suffrage movement are sending things topsy-turvy. In the midst of it all, five ambitious New Women and one Newish Man struggle to find their way. Miss Mary Barfoot runs a school for secretaries with her young lover, Miss Rhoda Nunn. But when the Misses Madden – spinsters Virginia and Alice and beautiful young Monica – arrive, along with the attractive Dr. Everard Barfoot, things can never be the same.

Age of Arousal is a lavish, sexy, frenetic ensemble piece about the forbidden and gloriously liberated self – genre-busting, rule-bending, and ambitiously original.

Genres: Plays, Drama

177 pages, Kindle Edition

First published October 14, 2004

Reviews

[Brad · Rating 4 out of 5]

Experimental theatre in the hands of Linda Griffiths -- the void keep her star stuff safe -- was a marvellous thing. She treated me like shit when I served her drinks, but damn if the lady couldn't write and act and direct like the bad ass bitch she was (and I say that in all honour. She was fabulous). If you ever get a chance to see Age of Arousal staged you need to take that chance. It's not easy but its excellent.

p.s. K. I. Hope ... you need to write a play. Imagine hector on stage.

[Joy · Rating 3 out of 5]

Lots of great female characters, interesting story arc and character development in the main characters, but lacking in the rest and the story felt rushed.

[Joti · Rating 4 out of 5]

Loved this!! Would be great to see this performed!!