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The Sex Party review – spiky comedy fails to satisfy
Bigotry in the bedroom … Timothy Hutton and Pooya Mohseni in The Sex Party. Photograph: Alastair Muir
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Menier Chocolate Factory, London There’s tension in Terry Johnson’s tale of four couples meeting for sex and nibbles but the unruly debate isn’t deep enough
A t first, The Sex Party looks like a retro BBC sitcom about swingers, although that term is banned at this adult shindig. Four couples collect for sex and nibbles at a cool north London postcode. There is gleeful talk about getting it on and a fair share of parading around in lingerie and thigh boots.
But Terry Johnson’s spiky comedy takes us from the familiar fare of smut and sniggering double entendres to something bolder and more awkward in the sex/gender debate at its centre, even if it does not reach a satisfying end.
We only ever see what happens in the high-end kitchen (set designed by Tim Shortall) but we get a vivid idea of the action in the living room from the moans and groans we hear. In a production also directed by Johnson, the acting stays fine across the board although the characters are flimsy (Lisa Dwan especially does wonders with her part) and the star casting of Timothy Hutton stays strangely marginal for too long. He drifts on and off stage, saying little and looking like a cliched California guru in yoga pants.
The dialogue often goes off on random, unruly riffs; one character (Will Barton) talks about taking MDMA and the dialogue sounds under the influence too.
The play’s grenade is lobbed as the first act closes, with the entry of Lucy (Pooya Mohseni), a trans woman, and from here on in it feels like another play altogether. Doris Lessing, in a Penguin introduction to Lady Chatterley’s Lover, wrote that what happens in the bedroom is a “report on the sex war” outside it and it seems to be the case with this living room; suddenly, no one wants to convene there and a very live tension is in the air.
Much is flung at us, from talk of toilets to language and JK Rowling and it feels genuinely edgy. It is brave of Johnson to grapple with a debate that has become so divisive that a meeting of this kind would be unimaginable in real life. But arguments come thick and fast without being explored. Johnson seems to be shooting an arrow through the issues of the day – including, too briefly, consent – but it comes to feel like a dramatised version of Twitter.
The room exposes its bigots and we finally see the point of Hutton’s character but as more plot-points are lobbed at us in the closing moments it feels much less like a sitcom than an entire series rolled into one production.
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Exclusive: Nikita Chibrin claims he did not fire weapon once while deployed to Ukraine for more than four months
A member of Russia’s armed forces who took part in the invasion of Ukraine has requested political asylum after landing in Madrid, the Guardian has learned.
Nikita Chibrin, 27, said that he spent more than four months in Ukraine as part of the 64th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade, a unit accused of committing war crimes in the Kyiv region in March.
Chibrin landed in the Spanish capital on Tuesday and was being held at the airport’s immigration centre. In a phone interview from the airport on Wednesday evening, Chibrin denied involvement in the reported war crimes of his unit, saying he did not fire a gun “once” while in Ukraine.
He said he was eager to testify in an international court about his experiences in Ukraine. “I have nothing to hide,” he said. “This is a criminal war that Russia started. I want to do everything I can to make it stop.”
Chibrin said he decided to flee Russia after deserting from his unit in Ukraine in June. According to Chibrin, he told his commanders of his opposition to the war on 24 February, the first day of the invasion. Chibrin says he was removed from his rank as an army mechanic after he spoke out and was then tasked with performing manual labour.
“They threatened to jail me. In the end, my commanders decided to use me as a cleaner and a loader. I was placed away from the battlefield,” he said of his time in Ukraine.
The Guardian has not been able to verify all the details of Chibrin’s story independently. Chibrin has supplied documents and photographs showing he was stationed with the 64th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade in Ukraine.
Maxim Grebenyuk, a lawyer who runs the Moscow-based advocacy organisation Military Ombudsman, said he was contacted by Chibrin over the summer. Grebenyuk said that Chibrin spoke about his opposition to what the Kremlin calls its “special military operation” and his desire not to fight in Ukraine.
Chibrin is the second known Russian serviceman who has fled the country after taking part in the invasion. In August, the Guardian interviewed Pavel Filatyev, a former Russian paratrooper who fled the country after writing a memoir criticising the war.
Born in Yakutsk, eastern Siberia, Chibrin joined the Russian army in the summer of 2021. “I did not think I would be involved in any wars,” he said, citing financial difficulties as the reason behind his decision to join the army.
Chibrin said that he first entered Ukraine with his unit on 24 February, crossing the Belarussian border. “We had no idea we were going to fight in Ukraine,” he said. “We were all tricked.”
According to Chibrin, he spent the first month of the invasion in the village of Lypivka, 30 miles west of Kyiv. During that period, Chibrin’s brigade is accused of the premeditated killing of unarmed civilians in Bucha and Andriivka, two villages close to Lypivka.
The Russian investigative site iStories has previously published a confession from a soldier who was part of Chibrin’s unit, admitting on camera to shooting and killing a civilian in the Ukrainian city of Andriivka, less than five miles from Lypivka.
After Ukrainian officials identified the 64th Separate Motor Rifle Brigade as the unit that had occupied Bucha, the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, awarded it the honorary title of “guards” and praised the unit for its “great heroism and courage”.
Chibrin claimed he did not witness any shootings during his time in Lypivka but said his unit would routinely loot Ukrainian homes. “They looted everything there was. Washing machines, electronics, everything,” he said.
He added that there were “widespread rumours” among his comrades that members of his unit were involved in sexual violence and killings of civilians. The UN has previously said that Russia has used rape and sexual violence as part of its “military strategy” in Ukraine.
Russian troops were forced to retreat from the outskirts of the Ukrainian capital in March. Chibrin said his unit was sent to Buhaivka, a town in the country’s north-eastern Kharkiv region.
He described morale in his unit throughout his time in Ukraine as “extremely low”, corroborating extensive media reports that portrayed the Russian army as one plagued by morale problems. “Everyone tried to find ways to get out of the army. But our commanders would threaten to shoot us if we deserted.”
He said on 16 June he managed to flee Ukraine by hiding inside a truck that was heading to Russia to pick up food supplies.
After some time, he contacted the human rights network Gulagu.net, which helped Chibrin leave Russia earlier this month. Vladimir Osechkin, the head of Gulagu.net, confirmed that his organisation helped Chibrin leave Russia.
Chibrin said he hoped to receive political asylum in Spain , citing his public opposition to the war as a danger to his health if sent back to Russia.
On Thursday evening, Chibrin was released from the airport’s immigration centre in Madrid. He said he will be placed at a temporary shelter for refugees in the Spanish capital as the authorities proceed with his asylum application.
A spokesperson for Spain’s interior ministry declined to comment on the case, citing international protection rules and the risk of possible persecution of applicants.
This article was amended on 18 November 2022. An earlier version said that Chibrin’s brigade is accused of “executing civilians in Bucha and Kyiv”. The term “execution” refers to the carrying out of a legally authorised death sentence. The reference has been changed so that the accusation is of the “premeditated killing of unarmed civilians”.
Additional reporting by Sam Jones in Madrid
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