Penny Arcade's One-Woman Show New York Values at the Marsh
The Marsh San Francisco Mainstage Theater (1062 Valencia St. San Francisco, CA 94110)
- Full Price:
- $15.00
- Our Price:
- $7.50*
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The last date listed for Penny Arcade's New York Values was Sunday November 22, 2009 / 3:00pm.
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Brian Copeland's New Solo Show The Waiting Period at The Marsh
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- $15.00
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- $7.50
The Marsh presents a workshop performance of Brian Copeland's new solo show, The Waiting Period. Copeland, a multi-talented actor, playwright, author and talk show host, has basked in the glow of both public and critical acclaim for nearly a decade. However, like many other well-known figures, he suffers from debilitating bouts of depression. This show gives an unrelenting look at a ten-day period in his life: the mandatory waiting period before he could lay hands on a new gun with which he planned to commit suicide. Even in the throes of such tragic plans, though, his sense of humor does not desert him (how much should he spend on the gun?), and in fact protects him from the grim reality of his intention. There is laughter in the darkness. Interspersed with interviews with other people suffering from depression, the play also offers outsiders an insider's view, thereby expanding the audience's understanding and, hopefully, humanity. Learn More
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High energy in-your-face performance art, great fun. Don't miss Penny Arcade !!Written on Nov 23 2009
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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.