Bitch! Dyke! Faghag! Whore!
Performance
- May 11 - 12 & 17 - 19
- 100 minutes
- Doors/Drinks/Dancing | 7:30pm
- Come early for go-go pre-show with New York’s sexiest erotic dancers.
- Performance | 8pm
Penny Arcade is the undisputed queen of downtown performance, and Bitch! Dyke! Faghag! Whore! is her biggest hit. A freedom of speech rallying cry, the raucous sex and censorship show premiered at Performance Space 122 in 1990 during the height of the culture wars, when ultra-conservative politicians pressured the National Endowment for the Arts into defunding artists who made work that was considered “offensive to the average person.” Deeply invested in the political role of art, Arcade sees a need to reassess the subject matter of censorship now—especially the “self-censorship coming from the left in the form of political correctness in today’s culture.”
Bitch! Dyke! Faghag! Whore! was made possible with support from the Axe-Houghton Foundation, Howard Gilman Foundation, Lambent Foundation Fund of Tides Foundation, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Shubert Foundation; and in part by public funds from New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.
Photo: Julieta Cervantes