Saturday 4th Noveember – Saturday 2nd December 2017 on tour around the country. See below for details.
image courtesy of Julia Etchart
What do you think of when you hear the words ‘Stripper’, ‘Escort’, ‘Pornstar’?
Originally devised in 2014, the award-winning Sex Worker’s Opera will tour the UK for the first time this autumn following a multitude of sell-out performances around the UK, Ireland and Greece. Comprised of 50% Sex Workers, this provocative show gives platform for sex workers – tired of being spoken for – to finally tell their own stories on their own terms.
Smashing together genres, Sex Worker’s Opera collides opera with hip-hop and incorporates sound art, projections and poetry to showcase an unflinchingly honest and upliftingly human insight into the lives of Sex Workers around the world.
Experimental Experience provides a platform to tell the unheard stories of Sex Workers from 17 countries across five continents, exploring a street worker giving marital advice, a webcam model and her ventriloquist dummy and a daughter making career choices in a male-dominated world.
Co-Director, Siobhan Knox, comments, Everyone has an opinion about sex work, even if it’s a joke or something they’ve heard on TV. Art and the media portray sex work in a very one dimensional way, it is either extremely glamorous or extremely tragic, and one of the messages of the show is that sex work is human, it is not good or bad it’s just complex.
An anonymous cast member comments, ‘It has given me the chance to explore my happiness in my career as a sex worker, to heal all my pain, to make poetry with my life.’
Sex Worker’s Opera Running time 2 hours
Ovalhouse: 52-54 Kennington Oval, London SE11 5SW
Twitter @SexWorkersOpera
Website https://www.sexworkersopera.com/tickets for tour dates
Facebook www.facebook.com/sexworkersopera
Age recommendation 16+
Editors Siobhan Knox and Julia Etchart
Tour Dates
4th and 6th November Mumford Theatre Anglia Ruskin University, East Rd, Cambridge CB1 1PT 01223 352932 www.anglia.ac.uk/arts-law-and-social-sciences/mumfordtheatre/sex-workers-opera-4nov Tickets: £12.50 (£10.50 concessions, £8.50 student). Further discounts apply for Angelia Ruskin students and staff.
9th – 11th November Theatre Delicatessen 202 Eyre Street, S1 4QZ 0114 278 6500 www.theatredelicatessen.co.uk/about/the-moor-sheffield/ Tickets: £14/10
16th – 18th November Tropicana Marine Parade, Weston-super-Mare BS23 1BE 0117 902 0344 www.tobaccofactorytheatres.com/shows/sex-workers-opera/ Tickets: £14/10
22nd November – 2 December Ovalhouse 2-54 Kennington Oval, London SE11 5SW 020 7582 7680 http://www.ovalhouse.com/whatson/detail/the-sex-workers-opera Tickets: £15/10 (Under 26 – £9)