Penny Arcade's New York Values

Description

“Traditionally people who live on the Lower East Side, we don't work, because we need a lot of sex. It's hard to have a lot of sex if you have a job! If you can work, if you can hack it, God bless you! Someone has to have the money to buy the weed!”



In “New York Values,” international performance star Penny Arcade engages individuality and rebellion against the Bourgeois Bohemian. “Bourgeois and Bohemia are two entirely different value systems,” she says. ”You can no more be a bourgeois bohemian than you can be an atheist catholic.” The show is about the art, rebellion and iconoclasm " … where Bohemia intersects with the demimonde, the criminal world. If you do not have a functioning criminal class in your art scene, you have academia! And while academia is a reflection of the art world, it is not, and never will be, the art world.” The show uses the fragmented, disjointed vocabulary of today's culture, with storytelling, monologues, music, rants and frequent dance breaks. The aim is to elicit a sense of freedom & individualism in the audience itself.

A runaway at thirteen, a reform-school graduate at sixteen, a performer in the legendary New York City Play-House of the Ridiculous at seventeen and an escapee from Andy Warhol’s Factory at nineteen, Penny Arcade emerged in the 1980s as a primal force on the New York art scene and an originator of what came to be called performance art. Miss Arcade’s brand of high camp and street-smart, punk-rock cabaret showmanship has been winning over international audiences ever since.


90 minutes
no intermission

All seating for this performance is first-come, first-served.

This show is 18+.

Please do not bring infants to the show.

Marsh Studio Theater Upstairs

More Info

Link

http://themarsh.org/penny_arcade_newyork_values_2009.html

Call

800-838-3006