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An award-winning opera starring real sex workers will be performed in Cambridge in November.

The Sex Worker's Opera, which will be touring the UK for the first time, aims to give a platform to sex workers to tell their own stories 'on their own terms'.

The show will mix opera with hip-hop and incorporate sound art, projections and poetry to showcase an 'honest and uplifting human insight' into the life of a sex worker.

Co-director Siobhan Knox said: "Everyone has an opinion about sex work, even if it's a joke, or something they've heard on TV.

"Art and the media portray sex work in a very one dimensional way, it is either extremely glamorous or extremely tragic and one of the messages of the show is that sex work is human, it is not good or bad, it's just complex."

Half of the cast will be made up of sex workers from 17 countries across five continents.

The show will explore a street worker giving marital advice, a webcam model and her ventriloquist dummy and a daughter making career choices in a 'male-dominated world'.

The performance, directed by Ms Knox, Clare Quinn and Alex Etchart, will take place at the Mumford Theatre at Anglia Ruskin University in East Road between November 4 and 6 from 7.30pm.

Tickets cost £12.50 for adults, £10.50 for concessions and £8.50 for students.

Further discounts will apply for Anglia Ruskin students and staff. The show is recommended for people over 16.

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