Sugar and Spice

by Philip Dart

Wonderful Actors, funny story and a beautiful lady...

This is my opinion of "Sugar and Spice"

But let's start at the beginning of the story...

Joe, his girlfriend Claire, Jenny - Claire's old school friend and Paul - Joe's best friend, are sitting in a bar. Joe is talking about how easy it is to be a girl.

"It's totally easy to get a job, you only have to put on make up and look pretty, and you'll get every job you like. Simply everything is so much better when you are a woman", he says.

Jenny is kind of feminist and is totally annoyed about that, so she says to Joe:

"I bet five hundred pounds that you wouldn't 'survive' a week being a girl."

As everyone could think he accepts the bet.

The rules are:

·                     Joe has to look like a girl (wear a skirt, put on make up).

·                     He has to act like a girl.

·                     He isn't allowed to tell anybody that he is a man.

So Claire and Jenny prepare him for his "feminine week".

They put eyeliner on his eyes, mascara on his lashes, lipstick on his lips.

He gets a skirt and a wonderful matching blouse.

He even has to wear tights.

And they gave him a gorgeous blonde wig.

What a sexy lady!

Joe or Joe-Ann, his new name, gets pestered by his new boss Mr. Bignall and even the local DJ "the Mac" gets very "interested" in him.

He gets totally shocked when he finds that out.

He sees that girls can have a really hard life.

It's going on his nerves to be a girl, he wants to be a real man again.

And on the sixth day he gives up, 'cause his boss tries to kiss him.

He throws his wig on the floor of Mr.Bignall's office and runs out.

So one day later the four friends go again into the bar where they were a week ago.

Joe gives Jenny the five hundred pounds, but she doesn't want the money, because she sees that his opinion has changed.

He sees that girls have to work very hard for their money.

Philip Dart has written an intelligent story full of jokes that shows that after thousands and thousands of years the two sexes still haven't got the same rights. There are still many differences in the business world, in politics, at work, and, and, and...

The actors were brilliant, sometimes I even forgot that they weren't highly paid Hollywood actors. I enjoyed the play totally and I would recommend it to everybody who likes jokes in a clever way.