Yeah No Yeah Productions Presents: The Oldest Profession

The Oldest Profession is a mad dash through 10,000 years of history from a sex worker’s perspective.

Kaytlin Bailey offers a new angle on the world’s oldest profession, reframing the story of western civilization. Weaving history, stand-up comedy, and lived experience in a fast-paced and profoundly moving hour-long solo show. The performance is punctuated by a projected art history slideshow.

The show opens with a comedic monologue introducing Kaytlin Bailey, her background as an Army brat, history major, and sex worker. She quickly transitions into the promise of the show, which is to cover 10,000 years of history from her perspective as a sex worker.

Alternating between her own family history, lived experience, and contemporary observations, we meet many canonized characters from history, and trace the evolution of the sacred whore from deified, to demonized, to diseased. We spend time in the ancient world revisiting the Epic of Gilgamesh, the…