Although the run is over and I in fact, saw the show on its closing night, I had to write a brief overview to let people know that if (surely more correct would be when) the show appears again, to GO AND SEE IT IMMEDIATELY. 

I'm not sure what I was expecting as such, but I was bowled over by the way the cast worked together with headsets in their ears the whole time, voicing what had just been said to them, back to us.  I will explain.

 Alecky Blythe uses a verbatim technique (she did not develop the idea I hasten to add, simply uses it very proficiently) whereby at all times thoughout performances, the actors are being fed the lines of the interviewed characters, in this case prostitutes, as they are said.  This gives them a certain freedom that traditional line learning does not.  Not only in the sense that they don't have to learn lines, but they an almost work backwards, making choices with the finished product rather than choosing how to say a line as they read the scipt.

It also gives the audience a much greater sense of the real people that Blythe interviewed and recorded.  You get a much more relaxed yet emotionally demanding feeling, as the actors stutter, cough and fart just where the women would have done.

Although obviously focussing on a very difficult and taboo situation, through the voices of the women, we are shown another side, with the women referring to what they do as a career and simply a way to make a good bit of money.  They often like their clients, referring to them fondly, or if there is any dislike, making fabulous jokes about the size of their nether regions.

The acting is spot on and although 90 minutes long with no interval I could have watched for much longer, so funny and touching was the piece.