Human Resources presents ??THE GIRL WHO KNEW TOO MUCH??, a combination performance and book party ?for Bad Reputation Performances, Essays, Interview ?Semiotexte

International Performance star Penny Arcade makes a rare appearance in ?Los Angeles at Chinatown’s Human Resources

This is Penny Arcade’s first performance in LA since 2007 except for a much loved guerilla appearance at Wildness in 2009. ??Expect an evening of the unexpected by the ?Queen of Underground Performance.

“??Combining the anarchy of Lenny Bruce with the pathos of Judy Garland, Penny Arcade is provocative, intellectually stimulating, perceptive and hilariously funny.” The List UK

Penny Arcade presents new work in progress, drawing from three new works Longing Lasts Longer, about love and longing, Old Queen about growing up in the Gay counter-culture and Denial of Death Pt 1 about art, ambition and annihilation.??There will be three short 5 minute screenings including an excerpt from ?The Will and Testament of Quentin Crisp, an excerpt on Jack Smith and Academia and one another not yet chosen.

In 2010 Semiotexte published Bad Reputation, a hardcover book on the work of Penny Arcade focusing on her autobiographical trilogy La Miseria, Bitch! Dyke!Faghag!Whore! and Bad Reputation, with the full scripts of all three performances plays, various essays on her work and an interview with Native Agent editor Chris Kraus.

Bad Reputation the book will be available $20. Penny will be signing books after the performance

http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/notebook/2010/03/15/100315gonb_GOAT_notebook_als

Penny Arcade is a writer, poet and performance and theatre artist whose work has always focused on the other, the outsider in society and what brings us together as humans. La Miseria tackles race, class and homophobia, Bad Reputation deals with the art world and entertainment world’s comodification of the “Bad Girl” while rejecting women it deems dangerous,
Bitch!Dyke!Faghag!Whore! is Penny Arcade’s Sex and Censorship show which took on the American Culture War as well as the mainstream’s view of the Aids Crisis giving a radical queer voice to it and turned the then largely PC art world on it’s head by becoming a mainstream commercial hit in 20 cities around the world, spearheading the pro sex feminist backlash and leaving the international neo performance art burlesque scene in it’s wake B!D!F!W! was retired in 1995 after touring for 3 years after an unprecedented year long run in NY ?For a performance art piece, in 1992-1993.?In 2006 B!D!F!W! was presented as the Platinum Feature at LA’s OUT FEST and has been in demand again, performing in New York 2007, San Francisco 2009, and Anchorage, Alaska 2011 and opening for an extended run in London in June 2012.

http://www.out.com/entertainment/theater/2011/04/04/ladies-we-love-penny-arcade