New Dixon Place Presents THE LOST LOUNGE 1/8-1/16

The New Dixion Place is proud to present The Lost Lounge, a world premiere by Split Britches. The show will take place January 8th, 9th, 15th and 16th at 2pm and 11 pm.

The Lost Lounge is a tribute to the people who hold out and to the places people gather to sift through what is lost and found when delicate memory is confronted with hard progress. It is a dark shadowy lounge populated by some uniquely queer yet recognizably universal characters whose moods swing between pessimism for the future and optimism of the past. All set to the beat of some different drums.

SPLIT BRITCHES was founded by Peggy Shaw and Lois Weaver, together with Deb Margolin
(veterans of Hot Peaches and Spiderwoman Theater), in 1981 at NYC's WOW Cafe. Shaw and
Weaver have become known for "a long line of smart, thrillingly well-executed performance pieces"
(Katherine Dieckmann, The Village Voice) and "tough intellectual and verbal content (John
Hammond, The Native). Peggy Shaw has received Obie Awards for Dress Suits for Hire (1987) and
Menopausal Gentleman (1999). Split Britches won two more Obies for ensemble acting in Belle
Reprieve (1991), a collaboration with Bloolips that was a reversed-gender version of A Streetcar
Named Desire. They created Lesbians Who Kill (1993), a satirical work on violent fantasies; Lust and Comfort (1995), a play set in London in the '50s which addressed sterility and complacency in longterm relationships; and Salad of the Bad Cafe (2000), a collaboration with performance artist Stacy Makishi that was inspired by Carson McCullers' novel and the lives of Tennessee Williams and Yukio Mishima. Shaw and Weaver also create solo shows; You're Just Like My Father, Faith and Dancing: Mapping Femininity And Other Natural Disasters, To My Chagrin and Miss America.

Dixon Place is a non-profit organization founded in 1986 to provide a space for literary and performing artists to create and develop new works in front of a live audience. While other venues of its kind have since died off, or now only present established artists, Dixon Place remains at the heart of the New York experimental performance scene. Taking risks is crucial to the life of Dixon Place, its artists and audiences. Dixon Place's primary commitments are to bring artists and audiences together through live performance in order to expand the understanding of the creative process and its final product, and to provide a supportive environment for emerging artists to present new work. Over the last twenty-four years, Dixon Place has successfully maintained its intimate atmosphere and unique environment while increasing its programming to fulfill the need for performance opportunities for the New York community of performing and literary artists.

For Reservations & advanced tickets visit www.dixonplace.org or call 212.219.0736. Tickets are $20 general admission, $18 student/senior, $15 advance purchase.