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For a title so titillating, the delivery of this provocative piece of writing is suprising bland.

3 young men and the girl from 881 starred in this production. Butt-checks peeking out from the beige body-suit, provocative sexual positions..with whips, ropes, a pistol, cybersex, hokkien vulgarities, sexual innunedos in every other sentence… In a show that juices the rating for all it is worth, it is abhorrent that I was bored, but I was.

Gay boys, confused boys, sexual boys screaming vulgarities at one another, picking fights, taking drugs, indulging in sex.. this is a generation where the boundaries of one’s sexual identity bulges. With a lot more freedom in a society that maintains moral elasticity behind a pious and stiff facade, i feel that i am taken on a joyride into the physically and emotionally landscape of the pink legion. When the play draws a boundary between the boys’ psyche and the society at large, the setting became mellow, indulgent and audience members are given a visual treat of boys’ secret lives. When the outer world crashes into this psychedelic fantasy world where body fluids flow in abundance, such as the police intrusion, the mother’s witnessing her son engaging in homosexual acts, this world of crumbles.

What I find somewhat offensive is the play’s use of the Buddhist’s Heart Sutra so callously, its function incidental without attempting to explain or dwell deeper into the religious juxtaposition with the world of the ’sinners’. The play would hardly be very different without this religious element.

In the end, this play only serves to reinforces the stereotype that homosexuals are sexually depraved. The element of the wandering spirit who is unwilling to forgive his mother even in his death appears to cement the playwright’s conviction that the 2 worlds should remain parallel to be functional.