ARGUENDO
Created and Performed by Elevator Repair Service
NOW THROUGH APRIL 27, 2014
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"How does one draw a line between Salome and the Kitty Kat Lounge?" -- Justice Antonin Scalia
Elevator Repair Service—the innovative company that created Gatz—comes to Woolly with their newest show, "Arguendo." This time, they bring their playful physicality and incisive wit to the Supreme Court and the 1991 First Amendment case Barnes vs. Glen Theatre, where a group of go-go dancers challenged a state ban on public nudity.
Using verbatim oral arguments and breathtaking projections by celebrated visual artist Ben Rubin, "Arguendo" introduces us to the Justices—who try to get to the bottom of this First Amendment puzzle—and the attorneys on both sides who gamely try to keep up.
