Confident and provocative, Rosy Carrick is great at sex.
In fact, her onstage career has long been based around her gleeful frankness on the subject. And yet, the sex she’s always been so open about – her sex-life with men – is radically different from Rosy’s earliest and most private erotic fantasies, in which the musclebound heroes of movies like Conan and He-Man are tortured and humiliated by their male antagonists, and where, alone with her imagination, sexual power means something very different.
Now, newly single, forty and doling out relationship advice to a teenage daughter on the brink of her own first sexual encounter, Rosy is forced to confront the niggling suspicion that something about her sexual past has never felt quite right. Could reconnecting with the hyper-macho desires of her youth be the key to restoring her sexual power? Or is there a more uncomfortable truth waiting to be reckoned with?
★★★★★ The Reviews Hub
“Important, relatable… a heartfelt exploration of desire and pleasure [with] a gut punch of raw honesty and reclamation of shame”
★★★★ The List
“Perfectly poignant and profound… Musclebound drips with Carrick’s charisma and bursts with originality – an honest story of a woman and her adolescent daughter navigating the world of sex and desire”
★★★★ What’s on Stage
“A startling, laugh out loud funny and erudite examination of age, relationships and female sexuality”
★★★★ The Voice
“Intelligent, thought-provoking and witty – the whole audience was crying with laughter”
★★★★ London Theatre
“Confident and compelling… Rosy Carrick likes to touch herself”