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Gross Indecency is hosted by Rita Haywire and Lana Turna-Me-Over. 
It is the true story of a very big queer party held in Forest Town, 1966.  A police raid led to stringent new homophobic laws (part of the Immorality Act) and the infamous ‘’3 men at a party” clause – not unlike the house arrest laws that considered 3 people or more as a crowd – who could be arrested for homosexual acts.
Fasten your seat belts you’re in for a bumpy ride through the dark and dirty anals of South African LGBTI history!
Written by and starring Robert Colman & Robert Whitehead  Studio orchestra by Mr Tony Bentel  Directed by Vanessa Cooke 
"a strong and hilarious attack on the stupidity of homophobic bigots" - Robyn Sassen

"...really hilarious, particularly when it forays in the thorny area between English and Afrikaans, highlighting and savouring the extremely rude nuances, as it creates glissandos of queer sub-text that will make your head spin. But it also makes your heart roar: underneath all the outrageously funny stuff, which is brought to an astonishing sense of polish with Tony Bentel on keyboard, the work is a raw essay on the reality of homosexual discrimination under apartheid" - Robyn Sassen

Press & Reviews

• Thu 24th Sep 2015 Blog Link
• Wed 23rd Sep 2015 Mail & Guardian Link
• Tue 22nd Sep 2015 The Star Link
• Sat 1st Aug 2015 Blog

  "A gloriously complicated story of discrimination and lasciviousness, where the characters change roles as they change sunglasses, it’s spoofed on radio theatre, decorated with several glorious dollops of nostalgia and brought to pants-wettingly funny incongruities, which don’t stop throughout its just over an hour’s duration" 

  
  

  "The text is really hilarious, particularly when it forays in the thorny area between English and Afrikaans, highlighting and savouring the extremely rude nuances, as it creates glissandos of queer sub-text that will make your head spin. But it also makes your heart roar: underneath all the outrageously funny stuff, which is brought to an astonishing sense of polish with Tony Bentel on keyboard, the work is a raw essay on the reality of homosexual discrimination under apartheid"
  

  Review in Robyn Sassen's 'My View': GROSS INDECENCY WILL MAKE YOU LAUGH TIL YOU WEEP