Wednesday, September 9, 2009

New Peggy Shaw Performance, Must: The True Story

Miss America La Mama Experimental Theatre Club Performance
Peggy Shaw (at right) and Lois Weaver


The Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics forwarded this message about a special performance by pioneering lesbian performer and playwright Peggy Shaw, a founding member of the New York/London based avant-garde feminist theater group Split Britches.

"Dear Hemi friends in the New York area!

We hope you can join us next
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18TH at 7:00 PM
for a special evening with the one and only
PEGGY SHAW
in which she will perform excerpts from her new show
MUST: THE TRUE STORY
a collaboration with Clod Ensemble, London

"A journey through the shadows of a city,
A pound of flesh, a book of Love"...

Peggy Shaw is an independent performance artist, painter and poet whose work is firmly rooted in a queer feminist perspective, with an unceasing quest for global equality in writing, spoken word and performance. (www.splitbritches.com
)

Where: 20 Cooper Square, 5th Floor (Hemispheric Institute)
When: Friday, September 18th, 7:00 PM
What: Peggy Shaw performs exceprts from Must: The True Story

Reception will follow."

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