Asking For It, Birmingham Repertory Theatre review - sexual violence and victim-blaming in small town Ireland
The audience is left squirming by an all-consuming performance about sexual consent in the social media era In a world where it was reported that a young English woman was gang raped with impunity by a group of teenage boys in Cyprus last year, Asking For It is a play that is more than relevant. Not that its subject matter is new. It's just one that has finally made some waves in the mainstream media.