THE WAU WAU SISTERS Return To PS 122 With Their Reinvention Of The last Supper 8/19

Following a sold out performance The Wau Wau Sisters return by popular demand to conjure a funny, raucous, ridiculous reinvention of The Last Supper - complete with 12 Disciples, umpteen cocktails, endless fun and fearless abandon!

New York City's bravest and bawdiest duo, The Wau Wau Sisters invite one and all in to their garden of unearthly delights and debauchery and deliver an hour of profanity and divinity! Straddling the hilarious gap between religious and related, performance art and party, busking and burlesque, this show is sure to make you want to convert to their cunning cult!

Who says you're not allowed to love EVERYBODY?! Let the Wau Wau Sisters show you the way! With a defiant mix of hell-raising humour and mesmerizing mayhem, watch catholic school girls turned born-again Country Western stars gather dandy's, derelicts and disciples along the way, and build to a bacchanalian finale, A LAST SUPPER full of saviours, savants and showgirls!!

ONE NIGHT ONLY: WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 19 at 8PM
Tickets: $20 and $15 (students/seniors). Tickets and P.S. 122 Passports are now on sale and available at www.ps122.org, by calling TheaterMania at 212-352-3101, and the Performance Space 122 Box Office. Note: The P.S. 122 Passport is a bundle of 5 tickets for only $55 that can be used in ANY combination to the 2009-10 season performances.
Performance Space 122 is located at 150 First Avenue @ E. 9th Street, New York, NY 10009

More about The Wau Wau Sisters
http://www.wauwausisters.com/pages/legend.html
Wearing high heels and clutching cocktails, The Wau Wau Sisters, NYC's bravest and bawdiest burlesque duo and the act The NY Times calls "irreverent, sacrilegious, foul-mouthed and uninhibited," straddle (literally) the hilarious gap between performance art and burlesque.

They have made appearances at these fantastic festivals and venues: The World Famous Spiegeltent (Melbourne, Sydney, Auckland, Edinburgh, NYC), The Mayan Theater (Los Angeles), Olivia Cruise Lines, Feast Fesitval (Adelaide), Soho Bar (London), El Cid (Los Angeles), The Grammys (Los Angeles Staples Center), Irving Plaza (NYC), The Palms (Las Vegas), CBGB's (NYC), The Hammerstein Ballroom (NYC), Joe's Pub (NYC), The Bowery Ballroom (NYC), The Henry Fonda Theater (Los Angeles), The Pica Festival (Portland, OR), Edinburgh Fringe Festival/The Pleasance (Scotland), The Jermyn St. Theater (West End, London) , The Art House & Crown & Anchor (Provincetown, MA), The Philadelphia Fringe Festival (Philadelphia, PA), The Sydney Festival, The Aukland Festival among countless other cities and venues!!

Television & Film exploits include the feature film "Shortbus" by John Cameron Mitchell (Hedwig and the Angry Inch), the film "Who's the Top?" by Jenny Livingston (Paris Is Burning), Australian ABC's "The Sideshow, Nipon TV's "Good Morning Japan", "The Isaac Mizrahi Show" w/ Rosie Perez, NPR's "The Next Big Thing", "Live From Downtown", "The Sharon Osbourne Show", and "Jimmy Kimmel Live!". Radio exploits include NPR's "The Next Big Thing", BBC1 and The David Lawrence Show.

AWARDS INCLUDE: Brighton Fringe 2008 Best International Act, Miss Exotic World Best Troupe 2005, Edinburgh Fringe Report's 2004 Best Cabaret, Vice Magazine "Worst Album"!

More about Performance Space 122
Performance Space 122 is New York's ultimate destination for cutting-edge theatre, dance, music, live art and multi-media. PS122 is dedicated to supporting and presenting artists who explore innovative form and provocative content and who rigorously challenge the boundaries contemporary performance; PS122 is committed to a steadfast search for pioneering artists from a diversity of cultures, nations and beliefs.

For thirty years, Performance Space 122 has been a hub for contemporary performance and an active member of the East Village, as well as the wider cultural community in N.Y.C. and across the globe. In just the past 4 years, under the curatorial vision of Artistic Director Vallejo Gantner, PS122 has opened the curtain on more than 2,100 performances, welcomed more than 100,000 visitors, and supported the work of more than 1,800 artists, performers, choreographers, playwrights, directors and designers.

Performance Space 122 passionately advocates for U.S. artists in New York and across globe. Our organization and the artists we present are reclaiming their relevance to wider social discourse by engaging artists, audiences and other community leaders in cultural, economic, and environmental debates about what it means to live in contemporary society. www.ps122.org.

 

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