Simply, you'd find dirtier things in the letters to Penthouse magazine. What is important to note about Quills , is that there is almost nothing gratuitous in Doug Wright 's adaptation of his award winning stage play. For hours every day. For months at a time. Wright fashions a story that goes far beyond any preconceptions that we may have had about what the pervert de Sade may have been like, and twists them to his own delicious ends.
Quills is filled with a tremendous amount of dry humor.
Or corpses, what have you. De Sade's imagination, even to this day, still sets the lowest possible standard for the most perverse kind of thought. But it is read by everyone. The people in the street. The doctor's wife .