Yarns Without Threads

This Webpage lists such information as is available on plays featuring naturism, naturist situations or references.

A young couple consider visiting a nudist beach in an attempt to resolve some emotional difficulties. The play has been produced at Lupin Naturist Club. Details of the play and of that production have been Web-published.

This "real-life musical comedy" is based on a troupe of high-school pupils putting on a musical set in a nudist colony. See the review in Curtain Up for full information about a 1999/2000 off-Broadway production.

A two-act comedy. Don Baker is a young blind bachelor trying to get away from his mother's apron strings, who has just moved in to his own apartment. Next door lives Jill Tanner, a would-be actor and "free spirit", who is strongly attracted to Don. At one point, Jill apparently recounts her experience of an audition where all the prospective cast members are naked.

A married man and a younger, unmarried woman aim to explore a strictly platonic relationship. But, ultimately, they are attracted to each other. Ultimately, they both essentially get naked for each other in order to put aside that attraction. The two are fully nude for an entire scene that lasts more than five minutes. Find out more in a collection of articles from Virginia's Bristol Herald Courier, detailing local objections to the stage nudity.

The boss is coming to dinner, but a "naked dude" insists on staying, and staying naked. Unfortunately, a Web-viewable recommendation by Christopher Muther of the Boston Globe with some minimal information about this production on 22 March 2002 has been removed.

The following will be added to this page when sufficient information is available:

• Ken Campbell Memoirs of a Furtive Nudist (First performed 1989)

  Sometimes called just The Furtive Nudist, this is apparently a one-man one-act show by this inventive comedian. The script has been published in The Bald Trilogy (1992).

• Tom Cushing Barely Proper: An Unplayable Play (1931)

  Supposed to be "A cute play about an English lad falling in love with a German girl at University. He dosen't find out she comes from a nudist family until that fateful first visit to the girl's home"

  A biography by Mecca Reitman Carpenter of her father Ben Reitman (1879-1942, a "pioneer in the history of reproductive freedom") includes information about Ben Reitman's daughter Helen (1902-1960). Better known by her assumed name of Jan Gay, Helen produced a book "On Going Naked" about Nacktkultur, and there is said to be film of her appearances in several productions of Barely Proper. This material may become available in edited form. (Information from a German webpage in English.)

Suggestions for additional plays to be included in this section are most welcome, as are your own views and reviews, and any other information about naturism and the theatre. Please email these to me.

Last updated 2006 April 10 (fixing broken links).
 
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