Actor confesses

Press, 9 April 1981, Page 6

Actor confesses

“If people want to pay to see something as banal and stupid as this, I’m in a position to give it to them,” said the star of the sex-comedy “Confessions” series, Robin Askwith, in the Theatre Royal last evening. Askwith and the bevy of nubile females shown with him arrived in Christchurch yesterday for an eight-day season of “Confessions from a Health Farm,” which opens ,

His last visit a year ago with “Further Confessions of a Window Cleaner” saw a host of religious groups and morals campaigners waving placards outside the theatre. So far this tour has been free of such incidents, but the joint promoter, Mr Bruce Warwick, would not be sur-

prised if the moralists turned out again. “Christchurch was the only place in New Zealand where there was any controversy last time,” he said, Like “Further Confessions of a Window Cleaner” and others of the genre, “Confessions from a Health Farm,”...(or “Who

Went Bare”) relies heavily on sexual innuendo and nudity. The show has been “panned” by some reviewers in the North Island. But Askwith, who is now aged 30 and has five well paying “Confessions” films under his belt, has no intention of abandoning the formula. “I’m not worried about becoming type-cast. People keep paying to see this sort of thing and it is a lot better than doing ‘Hamlet.’ That’S too much hard work.”