With a “Sliding Doors” concept, the play tells two stories of the same female character. In one world, she works for a multinational commercial conglomerate whose ethics are questionable and go against everything she believes morally, but the job pays for the life she’s always aspired to having grown up with only just enough. In another, alternate version of her life, she doesn’t take the job. Instead, she earns money on her terms by becoming a “cam girl” creating provocative content online in order to fund her bigger creative ambitions.

Both paths involve choices others question. But which is “better”? Is it better to follow the socially prescribed corporate path, however morally dubious? Or is posting pictures of yourself online – for the price you set – really just another way the system uses us? We know what we think – which path we think is ultimately more freeing – but we’re not blind to the challenges of navigating either of these worlds. And neither is this play.

Body or Soul shines a light on the complexity of the choices we make about our lives, our finances, our bodies and our morals. No choice is perfect, ever, but when it comes to the contempt, judgement and snobbery that’s still directed towards anything that comes close to “selling yourself”, we want to ask this: would you rather sell your body, or your soul?

Body or Soul is produced by Fury Theatre and has been supported by The Asylum Players and Chronic Insanity Theatre.