Rousseau's Tale
by David Pownallwith Stephen Boxer as Rousseau
directed by Stephen Daldry
1765. Jean-Jaques Rousseau, exiled from his native France, has been invited to deliver a lecture to the Royal Society in Fleet Street on the subject of 'Sexual Feelings'.
'It is my habit to and discipline to be absolutely honest in these matters… from now on I forbid anyone to leave under any pretext whatsoever as we are entering into a sacred discourse between myself and my animal soul. Disgust and revulsion have no place here. We are in the temple of truth…'
Stephen Boxer is currently appearing as Colbert in Nick Dear's Power in the Cottesloe.
Rousseau's Tale finished on: 1 October 2003
