‘Sell/Buy/Date,’ Sarah Jones’s Futuristic Look at Sex Workers
Charles IsherwoodOctober 18, 2016: Given how the objectification and exploitation of women has become an ugly but central topic in the presidential campaign — I trust I don’t need to remind you of any details — “Sell/Buy/Date,” the newest show from the gifted writer and performer Sarah Jones, seems eerily timely. In this absorbing solo show, a Manhattan Theater Club production that opened on Tuesday at City Center, Ms. Jones peers into the future to explore how a sociology professor examines the lives of sex workers in the first decades of the 21st century. More broadly, the show also discusses how women of our era are conditioned to conceive of themselves — or how others conceive of them — as sexual beings.
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