Even the
theatre has seen
the potential of spanking. Year after Year, Kiss Me Kate is staged. The
spanking scene almost always rates highly in the publicity. But there have
been a few other plays that have used a spanking scene to the same end.
Kiss Me
Kate 1953
Howard Keel spanks Kathryn
Grayson
We have already seen how KMK exploits the spanking scene to
the full. But it is not unique.
We have
still to determine the origin of this entry. It seems to come from a 1950s theatre
production. Any one know it? (Click for full size.)
Der
Wildschutz or the Force of Nature
New York 2002
Nicole Warner spanks Jung-A Lee
Click right to see the web page for this production.
Virtually nothing else in it counts except the spanking.
Sometimes
gratuitous scenes are introduced and played for laughs. Exactly what is behind this
unknown scene is difficult to fathom out.
Molly
London 1978
T P McKenna as Teddy spanks Billie Whitelaw as Molly twice in the Course of
this Simon Gray play. The spanking theme played well to the newspaper critics. Click right
for more details.
Lulu
London 2002
Lisa Saffer receives a symbolic spanking in the opera Lulu
by Alban Berg.