![]() One suffering couple is the Langs, a previously happy pair of 40-year-old English teachers ("young but not too young old but not too old"). Nobody can quite say what's happening, but everyone feels it. But since sex within a committed relationship is the other love that dare not speak its name, the town's collective pain can only be expressed behind clenched teeth. One by one, they turn away from their partners for reasons they cannot explain, leaving the men confused and angry (strangely, the spell does not affect gay couples). Like hunger strikers, Aristophanes's women hurt themselves as much as their victims after all, they need sex too.īut soon after rehearsals start, "ElRo's" female teachers and students mysteriously decide en masse that they can happily do without. It's a racy choice for a school play, depicting as it does a group of women who hold a sex strike in response to prolonged warfare on the part of their menfolk. The Uncoupling is a smart, tender and utterly hilarious look at the fragility of desire, and the pain that so often attends its disappearance.Ī new drama teacher arrives at Eleanor Roosevelt High School in suburban New Jersey and immediately undertakes to stage Aristophanes's ![]() Meg Wolitzer's new novel takes that old saw, sharpens it and polishes it until it gleams: ![]() It's said that sex is 10 per cent of a good relationship and 90 per cent of a bad one. ![]()
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