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A reform-school runaway at thirteen, a performer in the legendary New York City Playhouse of the Ridiculous at seventeen, and an escapee from Andy Warhol's Factory scene at nineteen, Penny Arcade (born Susanna Ventura) 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. Arcade's brand of high camp and street-smart, punk-rock cabaret showmanship has been winning over international audiences ever since. This autobiographical trilogy of plays represents her at her best.Bitch!Dyke!Faghag!Whore!,is Penny Arcade's raucous, cutting-edge sex and censorship show, (which continues to be a commercial hit around the world), featuring the daily life of a receptionist in a brothel, the upbringing and rearing of a "faghag," the evolution of the New York gay scene in the 1990s, and a participatory "audience dance break." The funny and heart-rending title work, Bad Reputation, portrays a young teen runaway's coming of age in a Catholic reform school (run by nuns who are former fashion models) and her subsequent life on the streets of 1960s New York. La Miseria,a rare depiction of working-class Italian-Americans from a woman's point of view that portrays the clash between working-class morals and compassion during the 1980s AIDS epidemic, rounds out the trilogy.Bad Reputation is the first book by and on Penny Arcade. The complete scripts are accompanied by a new interview with Penny Arcade by Chris Kraus, a range of archival photographs of the East Village scene and Arcade's performances, an introduction by playwright Ken Bernard, and contributions by Sarah Schulman, Steve Zehentner, and Stephen Bottoms.
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Nicholas Clemente
reviewed Bad Reputation: Performances, Essays, Interviews on July 10, 2012 Bad Reputation: Performances, Essays, Interviews
Author and performer Penny Arcade: Queen of the downtown art scene. The book is a series of performances, essays, and interviews. Penny was a huge part of the Andy Warhol Factory scene. She originated 'Performance Art." And then... She mastered it.
She is a bit like an alternative therapist, and an avant garde sociologist... but with a truly unique wit, and a somewhat caustic sense of humour. Anyway, no matter what she is doing, it is never boring!
Her work boils down to one, simple, important message - Get over all the crap, love yourself, and love others - but she enhances this message with gyrating go-go dancers, and a lesson in the history of Queer society, including her personal experience of living through the AIDS crisis.
She is not an easy personality or artist to explain, but she IS one of the most interesting people working in theatre today.
If you are an actor looking for a unique monologue, this IS your book. If you like memoir, this IS your book.
If you love empowered, unique, witty women who have effected major changes in history, this IS your book. If you like the downtown NYC art scene, during the 60's, and the 70's, this IS your book. If you have ever been in a relationship with someone with an intimacy problem, if you care about the insanity of the right wing Christian movement and national and international politics, if you have members of your family who just don't 'get you' no matter how hard you try and communicate with them, if you survived the AIDS epidemic, if you have SEX... THIS IS YOUR BOOK.
If you believe in love, this is your book.
And you can see me, on pages 28 and 30, in the book, because I had to honour of being an original touring cast member of her hit show Bitch! Dyke! Faghag! Whore! about 20 years ago... ;-)
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