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Penny Arcade Bitch! Dyke! Faghag! Whore!

Arcola, Inner London
From: Wednesday, 27th June 2012
To: Sunday, 22 July 2012

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Synopsis

Queen of the underground and New York performance legend Penny Arcade invites you to celebrate sex, freedom and art with her internationally infamous sex and censorship show where literally anything goes. Penny Arcade B!D!F!W! is one of the most exuberant events ever to emerge from New York's downtown art scene. Blending outrageous humour, razor sharp satire, theatre, cabaret and erotic go-go dancing with uplifting audience dance breaks, B!D!F!W! propels the anarchic into the mainstream, creating a freedom of speech anthem and political provocation for our times.

Our Review:

2 July 2012

Penny Arcade is like the fascinating, hell-raising aunt you always wished you had. And for two and a half hours of Bitch! Dyke! Faghag! Whore!, you get to pretend that she is, as she welcomes you into her family of erotic dancers, avant-garde performers and free thinkers.

Arcade’s show consists mainly of one-woman skits inspired by her personal life. Few could pull this off, but Arcade’s personality is so all-encompassing that pulls everyone in the Arcola Tent into her own private orbit.

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Arcade's diatribes... are no longer ground-breaking, but are still worthwhile”
Stephanie Soh

Born Susanna Ventura, she was raised by her strict, working-class Italian family in the small town of New Britain, Connecticut. But in her teens she rebelled, and soon found herself taken in by the fabulously unorthodox world of queer society. At the age of 17, whilst on LSD, she renamed herself Penny Arcade, and went on to establish herself as...

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