Deeply Leisured, a one-woman show by local Melbourne talent Queenie Bon Bon that details the joys and battles of being a sex worker, played during this season’s 2014 Fringe Festival. I was fortunate enough to see one of the six nights of Queenie’s show—her final performance was last weekend. It’s always fun supporting a fellow sex worker (or… Continue reading Deeply Leisured (2014)
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The Week in Links: May 25
The Stop the Arrests movement is calling for a moratorium on prostitution arrests in London throughout the 2012 Olympics. Meanwhile there’s manufactured prostitution hysteria in the Ukraine preceding the Euro soccer championship. Laura Agustín links to studies that have disproven the myth that trafficking spikes around major sporting events. NYPD cop by day, stripper by night Steve… Continue reading The Week in Links: May 25
The Loveliest Little Mid-Price Hooker in Wellington
In a post-Mike Daisey age, you can’t help but approach a monologuist with a certain skepticism. There’s truth and then there’s truthiness, and in between rests a heaving sea of what-the-hell-edness. Part Time Prostitute, a one-woman show that claims to be the “autobiographical tale of a part-time prostitute,” appears to be fairly on the level,… Continue reading The Loveliest Little Mid-Price Hooker in Wellington
Live Nude [REDACTED] On Stage
When the play in question is called Stripper Lesbians, one might assume that there will be strippers who are also lesbians. An astute reader is also likely to surmise that the subtext is going to center on labels. Neither assumption is incorrect when applied to the play Stripper Lesbians, directed by Jeff Woodbridge, currently running… Continue reading Live Nude [REDACTED] On Stage