'The Rabble take on Pauline Reage’s famous erotic novel Story of O, reinventing it as a surreal and erotic visual fantasia. We follow a woman known only as O as she submits to her lover’s demands – sex with men, sex with women, sex in public, sex with strangers, sex with machines – a festival of perversity, a denouncement of self.
The Rabble take you deeper – exploring the recesses of O’s mind, the depths of female sexuality, deviancy, arousal and submission. A luscious, visceral odyssey through O’s looking glass. Story of O is THE RABBLE in their element : feminine, provocative, subversive and beautiful.'
Source: Melbourne Theatre Company.
Originally published in French 1954 in Paris by Jean-Jacques Pauvert, and written by author Anne Desclos under the pen name Pauline Réage. The 1965 translated edition was banned in Australia.