Review: New Comedy Looks at "Sex Work/Sex Play" and the Spectrum Between Them
Sex Work/Sex Play Written by Caytha Jentis Directed by Rosie Gunther Presented by Emerging Artists Theatre at the 28th Street Theatre 15 W. 28th St., 2nd Fl., Manhattan, NYC September 4-October 29, 2023 Sex Work/Sex Play – Constance Zaytoun and Amber Gatlin. Photo by Richard Rivera. When it comes to sex, most people probably have experiences, desires, habits, frustrations, and so on that they do not share readily or at all (inhibitions no doubt shaped by our puritanical, heteropatriarchal culture). At the start of Sex Work/Sex Play , from playwright Caytha Jentis, each of the characters is keeping at least one such secret, leading to comic collisions that upend a status quo that is less than ideal for most of them. Sex Work/Sex Play is making its world premiere in repertory with two further world premiere productions–solo show Anne Being Frank and Doris Day: My Secret Love , a play with music–and it also features four special performances, with the September 22nd performance follo...