Every so often, you wonder whether the show isn't too aesthetically pleasing: the clothes the trio wear are so pretty, the music played on stage by Shane Durrant is so romantic. The company seem equally aware of the impossibility of dealing adequately with sex slavery in a piece of devised physical theatre that is as concerned with beauty as it is violence and squalor.
"It was as if these women didn't exist," they confess mournfully. And, as the performers admit, the stats all but erase the personalities of the women behind them. There are horrifying statistics behind this show by the Paper Birds, a young, all-female theatre company based in Leeds. Bearing in mind £1,500 was paid for her, that's £1 per rape. Before too many weeks have passed, she has been raped 1,500 times. Over the next few weeks she is moved from London to Leicester, then Manchester, then Plymouth, being raped five, eight, 10 times a day. She is raped in the car, and raped another five times at her new home. England, she thought, would be green, like a picture book, polite, a "high moral society". Before she's quite aware what is happening, her passport is missing and she's in a car. A young woman arrives at a London airport with a new jacket, a £10 note, a small suitcase and a passport.
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