Synopsis

A colour videotape of a performance by “Red Bucket”, a theatre group set up by members of Gay Sweatshop. The name of the group is a spoof of the radical socialist theatre group, “Red Ladder.” The performance parodies heterosexual and homosexual values, gesturing towards class and gender tensions within gay male theatre. The play follows a heterosexual couple, Karen and Yuck discover their same sex attraction, as Yuck pursues an affair with Fart. Actors frequently drop character to comment on the political pitfalls of the play, such as Sue interjecting that the play is “not challenging anything, all you want to do is screw with six foot cocks and keep women at home servicing you in wimpy bars, laundrettes and Tescos!” The tape features television writer and producer, Andy Lipman.