Inspired by Japan’s cutest hit export, cartoon character Kitty, the new play by theatre maker Satoko Ichihara is about female stereotypes, sex work and vegetarianism.

Theatre maker Satoko Ichihara stages the patriarchy’s mechanisms of oppression with a vicious, analytic and at the same time comic touch like no other. Inspired by Japan’s cutest hit export, the cartoon character Kitty, this new play is about female stereotypes, sex work and vegetarianism. If a woman wants to be attractive, she has to be childish, cute and innocent – like Kitty. With uninhibited honesty, Satoko Ichihara and her actors from Japan, South Korea and Hong Kong take us along into a not-quite-so-fictional world of ever-present pornography in which everything is turned into a commodity: meat, women, love. Satoko Ichihara is one of the most important voices of a new, actively feminist generation of theatre makers in Asia and has already caused a global sensation with her works.