1,000 Men

Issy Knowles' Body Count transfers to New York following a sold-out and critically lauded run at the Edinburgh Fringe! Written and performed by Knowles and directed by Alice Wordsworth, the solo work arrives at SoHo Playhouse as part of its International Fringe Encore Series. The production earned multiple major accolades during its UK engagement, following on from Knowles previously topping the Brit List for Model Behaviour in 2022, and provides a sharp, darkly comic look at how the quest for virality in the digital age pushes sex workers to greater and greater extremes.

What Is The Story?

Pollie is an OnlyFans content creator determined to hit the highest heights of fame through a headline-grabbing challenge involving her subscriber base; she plans to sleep with 1,000 of them. This dark comedy examines the commodification of intimacy in the digital age, with ambition, agency and public judgement colliding in an interrogation of the emotional and psychological cost of building a persona for consumption.