There are no less than eight intimate exchanges in this ingenious tour de farce and each has two different endings; you can see Intimate Exchanges sixteen times and not see the same play twice! And one actor and one actress play all 10 characters. This is Ayckbourn's most unusual look yet at the foibles of middle class living.-1 woman, 1 man
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But why do the tragedies always represent the transferal of women as disastrous? Victoria Wohl offers an illuminating analysis of the exchange of women in Sophocles' Trachiniae, Aeschylus' Agamemnon, and Euripides' Alcestis.
100 / Chapter 2 modified exchange—that is, through the mode and form of exchange itself. ... These subtle shifts are reactions to or compensations for the condemnation of their work in intimate commercial exchange.
The lived experiences of people involved in intimate markets show that intimate exchanges do not inevitably lead to alienation, objectification and dehumanization, but given particular conditions, laborers can achieve self-empowerment ...
But, submitting that story for editing and preparation as a commercial book is another matter. Then it becomes a collaborative process that calls for the author to stand up for the story and the vision that inspired it.