I was just so lucky that a friend told me about this incredible one-woman show.
To introduce me to Sarah Jones’ work, my friend first sent me Sarah’s TED talk: I was sold immediately. What a talented actress!
Sarah Jones’ play “Sell/Buy/Date” is about reevaluating our culture around sex and sex industry from a very unique perspective, or maybe I should say, perspectives. Each of Sarah’s many characters share their viewpoints, experience and memories about sex, stereotypes and sex industry.
It’s the kind of play you come out of the theater wanting all of your friends to go see tomorrow. It’s a mind-blowing experience that overwhelms you with an urge to spill out all of your thoughts at once that it makes you quiet in the midst of excited friends, leaving the theater together. It hit me hard. After five days, I find myself finally able to write this modest blog about it.
True, I’ve been struggling with my #MeToo since I’ve come public with it in July. Maybe that’s why it’s hit me especially hard. True, the relentless news coverage about Bill Cosby and Brett Kavanaugh has been triggering – maybe that’s why I found solace in Sarah speaking for many of us from multiple perspectives, often with humor, but thoroughly powerful and compelling throughout, on all of its issue’s complicated angles. But no, it was not just me. Some people, like me, were speechless. Others could not stop talking – or, shouting, screaming, and laughing like they were about to start crying.
Please go see it. It’s the kind of play that will make the world a better place through each of its audience being moved to be a little more open minded, a little more compassionate, a little more imaginative about the others, for the rest of his and her life.
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