A GROUP of students are bringing the 1980s porn industry to an Oxford University college this week.
And they are leaving a trail of condoms across the university to make sure that no one misses their new production Volporne XXX.
The show opens at Keble College’s O’Reilly Theatre tomorrow and runs until Saturday.
And anyone unsettled at the prospect of a play about “the greatest porn star in the world” should be reassured it is all in the best possible taste.
The production by the students group Heck Collective is a modern dress take on Ben Jonson’s play Volpone, which dates from 1606.
A satire of greed featuring a Venetian gentleman who pretends to be on his deathbed to dupe a group after his fortune, it remains Jonson’s most-performed play.
Co-director Katie Ebner-Landy said: “We have a fairly lurid set but we are saying it is suitable for anyone 15 and over.”
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