Body and Soul is a full-length drama by John Mighton. To what extent is our desire conditioned? And what forms will our desire take when we are given the means to simulate and experience? Body and Soul travels to a place where love, biology and technology meet, with surprising results. Body and Soul is a dark comedy that uses an erotic fascination with corpses and the technological simulation of fantasies to explore the fulfillment of desire. Jane is a necrophiliac who has found heaven as a cosmetician in a funeral home. Henry is a married man who is bored with the attentions of his wife, Sally, and volunteers for virtual reality experiments known as "Teledildonics" to fulfill his Shangri-la sexual fantasies. The result is quirky, offbeat, black humour with some deliciously constructed laugh lines and comic situations. Body and Soul premiered in 1993 at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa and had a separate run in 1994 at Theatre Passe Muraille in Toronto. Since then the play has been mounted at professional theatres and performed in college theatre productions as a showcase of student talent.

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