In By the Hour Naoe Kawamoto and Andrew Woolner explored the inner lives of older sex workers in Yokohama. After giving some brief background information in Japanese and English on the sex industry and its workings, Naoe and Andrew took stories from their research, chose key moments, and dramatized the emotional responses and repercussions of those moments. These intense scenes, three to a character, were bookended by longer, physical scenes that gave further context to the play.
Each performance of the play was followed by a brief Q & A to allow the audience to ask questions about the process of creating the show or about sex work.
