Shut up and love me
dal 23/7/2001 al 25/8/2001
Segnalato da
23/7/2001
Shut up and love me
Westbeth Theatre Center, New York
After ending her standing room only engagement in May at P.S. 122, Karen Finley, the most controversial woman in performance today, brings her acclaimed new show Shut up and love me to Off-Broadway. This ribald collection of pieces about sex will be presented for a five week limited engagement beginning July 24th at Westbeth Theatre Center. The piece will be completely re-invisioned and re-staged for Westbeth’s mainstage space -- all designed to include the audience and put them right in the middle of the action.
After ending her standing room only engagement in May at P.S. 122, Karen
Finley, the most controversial woman in performance today, brings her
acclaimed new show SHUT UP AND LOVE ME to Off-Broadway. This ribald
collection of pieces about sex will be presented for a five week limited
engagement beginning July 24th at Westbeth Theatre Center. The piece will be
completely re-invisioned and re-staged for Westbeth’s mainstage space -- all
designed to include the audience and put them right in the middle of the
action.
In SHUT UP AND LOVE ME, Karen Finley redefines "Summer Lovin’" as she
presents her own histrionic version of On The Road. In this veritable
banquet of erotic delights, she deconstructs the Electra complex, skewers
Winnie The Pooh, and offers her own unique striptease. It is a raw, humorous,
and bawdy journey of psychosexual lust and dysfunctional sex with Karen at
the wheel. Rudy and his decency commission be damned!
Karen Finley is widely regarded as one of the most relentlessly independent
and visceral performance artists of her generation. Crossbreeding theater,
performance, spoken word, and visual art, Finley’s challenging and darkly
humorous work is moving and powerful, edgy and unpredictable.
Since her first performances in the early 1980’s, Karen Finley has become
synonymous with performance art. She is the recipient of two Obies, two
Bessies, and multiple grants from the NEA and NYSCA. She has toured
internationally with pieces including The American Chestnut, A Certain Level
of Denial and The Return of The Chocolate Smeared Woman. In 1990, Finley
became an unwilling symbol for the NEA when she, along with Tim Miller, Holly
Hughes & John Fleck, sued the NEA for withdrawing grants on the grounds of
indecency. Finley’s recent projects include: A Different Kind of Intimacy:
The Collected Writings of Karen Finley, Pooh Unplugged, and a spread in
Playboy Magazine.
Tickets are $30 - $35
For further information call 212-741-0391.
Tickets may be purchased by calling TicketMaster at 212-307-4100.
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Wednesday - Saturday at 8:00pm with a preview performance Tues., July 24.
Westbeth Theatre Center
151 Bank Street
(north of 11th Street and west of Hudson)
New York, NY 10014
Box Office Line (212) 741 - 0391
Box Office Hours: M - F 12 - 6pm
Saturdays 2 - 6pm
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