Nyotaimori

Théâtre Les Arts, Place du Marché

COMPANY THESE SERIOUS GENTLEMEN Le work—Is work the center of our lives? With biting humor, Quebecois playwright Sarah Berthiaume explores capitalist systems that turn us into objects and push us toward burnout. Infused with magical realism where the ordinary blends with the extraordinary, Nyotaimori (a Japanese practice of eating sushi off a woman’s naked body) guides us into the surreal spiral of Maude, a overwhelmed freelancer. The boundarylessness with her private life will lead her on a "journey" from Montreal to Japan and from Texas to India, to the ren…