The Wau Wau Sisters Holiday Show ONE NIGHT ONLY!

SAVIOR SISTERS (Save Your Sisters!)! at Parkside Lounge Dec. 17, 7PM

OMG! Is it December?! ! Is it a rumor?! 'Tis it the season? Almost! Sweet baby Jesus - it's a goddamned holiday miracle!! The legendary Wau Wau Sisters are real and coming to wreak havoc on your holidays! These nut-crackers are barely wrapped, delivering zero Christmas songs, flurries of nudity, no sentimentality and everything else on your Christmas list! Hop in their sleigh and get all wrapped up in their drunken presence as we rough and tumble into the Almighty Horrordays (& an election year?) - laughing all the way...ha ha ha!

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MASTERCLASS, written in collaboration with acclaimed Dublin-based theater makers Brokentalkers. A satirical performance interrogating gender and power structures in today’s world, using theatre as a metaphor.

Winner Fringe First Award - Edinburgh 2022 - The Scotsman

★★★★★ - The Stage

★★★★★ - The List 

★★★★★ - The Irish Times

★★★★ - The Scotsman

★★★★ - The Guardian

★★★★ - Fest Magazine

★★★★ - The Arts Review

★★★★ - Three Weeks in Edinburgh

About The Show 

Using real life examples of unnamed divisive but celebrated playwrights, MASTERCLASS uses existing footage, publications and interviews to let these very artists reveal uncomfortable truths about themselves, and by extension, about our culture. The performance begins with a masterclass and interview with a ‘master’ playwright, subverting the tropes of said masterclasses: the sycophantic relationship between ‘interviewer’ and ‘artist’; the casual self-mythologizing of and aligning with canonical ‘greats’ that have gone before. MASTERCLASS begins as a parody of the celebrated lineage of the great male artist. It’s fun. It’s familiar. But there is something else at play, and something very serious at stake.

MASTERCLASS starts its international touring this summer! First stop Harstad, Norway! June 30!

Presented by Brokentalkers & Adrienne Truscott

‘No one enjoys being equal’ - David Mamet

Featuring the savagely comedic feminist discourse of Adrienne Truscott with the slippery dramaturgy of Brokentalkers, MASTERCLASS parodies the “great male artist” to within an inch of his life in order to uncover some difficult truths about privilege and power.

The show begins in the form of a cockamamie masterclass performed by fed up feminist Adrienne Truscott and all around good guy Feidlim Cannon. It’s fun. It’s familiar. There are wigs. But there is something more at play.

“Using the arts world as a metaphor, MASTERCLASS is a literate and hilarious examination of gender and power.” ★★★★★ - The Irish Times

“This is highly entertaining, each moment underpinned by a fizzing comic energy. This is a sparklingly provocative romp. The political vision is flavoured by, but never sacrificed to, a core mission to excite, divert and entertain.” The Irish Independent

“Damn me, it’s hilarious.” – The Sunday Independent

“Masterclass is about provoking, not problem solving. And having a lot of fun while doing it.” - ★★★★ - The Arts Review

Form-busting performance artist Adrienne Truscott returns to Joe's Pub to become Paige Turner, forgotten cabaret legend and figment of her own imagination. Paige and her all-lady-ish band The Lost Chapters, led by guitar heroine Viva DeConcini (Taylor Mac; Machine Dazzle) with Brittany Anjou and Bernice ‘Boom Boom’ Brooks - are here to truly misinterpret and pervert some of the best and worst songs ever written. She's as high as her kicks and goes as low as her notes, while drinking and considering the possibility that she may be an overlooked genius, sorry jeenyus, directing and starring in her own B-film about a legendary slightly homicidal cabaret show.

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Doors at 9:00. Show at 9:30.

OMG. Is it December?! 'Tis it the season? Is it a rumor?! No, it's a goddamned holiday miracle!! Happy Horrordays! The legendary Wau Wau Sisters are bringing you a holiday show with zero Christmas songs, lots of nudity, no sentimentality, and all the bottom shelf booze and comedy you can swallow.

TIX HERE!

I will be showing some clips from Asking For It and (Still) Asking For It (Directed by Ellie Heyman) for the students and faculty at John Jay College.

Barbara Cassidy and Shonna Trinnich - two brilliant professors and theater makers at John Jay College in NYC - have engaged me to talk about Asking For It for their course Seeing Rape. It has always been illuminating, challenging and educational - for me - to discuss all of this with these young students at a college known for criminal justice, just now being introduced to theater.

This presentation includes footage from a cellphone recording of it’s original experimental run in a bookshop in Edinburgh Fringe in 2013 (pre Cosby outing, #metoo, TimesUp, Weinstein, et al), to it’s updated solo version in 2016 (just before Trump is elected) and from an expanded version where the script was shared with other performers from diverse backgrounds, ages, performance genres and life experiences. The original show (AFI) was a grand experiment as was the 2019 show ((S)AFI. I’m just starting to look at footage and am learning to edit by paying little attention to the rules.

YOU GUYS, IT’S FREE! And…….ON ZOOM! I know!

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Nora Burns’ incredible, hilarious, heartbreaking show David’s Friend - about the deepest of friendships, love, sex, hustling, disco, dancing and loss - in 1970’s-80’s nitty gritty NYC through the height of the AIDS crisis has been made in to a film! On a big Drive-In screen at the Palm Springs LGBTQ Film Festival

Live show and film directed by me!! Filmed by Todd Hughes and P. David Ebersole, at Casita del Campo, the downstairs theater of one of the best drag clubs in LA!

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The Malthouse. SEASON 2020. 26 MAR – 19 APR 2020

GREY ARIAS. A RAMBUNCTIOUS MATCH MADE ON EGGSHELLS

Le Gateau Chocolat (Black Rider: The Casting of the Magic Bullets) is a man. Adrienne Truscott (Wild Bore) is a woman. Le Gateau Chocolat is a gay, black, English-Nigerian man and drag artiste. Adrienne Truscott is a cis white feminist American female performance artist. Le Gateau Chocolat is a multi-award-winning, plus-sized, bearded, drag diva feminist. Adrienne Truscott is a multi-award-winning comedian and provocateur who enjoys chocolate cake, up to a point. They are dear friends and here, as in everyday life, they perform a multiplicity of identities: perceived, lived and projected. As their comical banter turns personal, political debates erupt, and grey areas (and arias) are exposed. Between musical numbers, they spring rhetorical traps designed to catch any who overstep the blurred lines of the politically correct and interrogate the boundaries of allyship. When the 'faggot' faces the 'feminist' they ask: ‘How does one walk the fine line that delineates marginalised perspectives?’In heels, obviously. Crack.

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Top three reasons you won’t want to miss this one (arranged alphabetically):

1. Adrienne Truscott! 2. Ursula Martinez! 3. Zoe Coombs Marr…ok, and three more for good measure:

1. If you liked Nanette, this is going to be your jam: smart, funny and fearless. 2. The prop work alone is worth the price of admission.
3. This power trio of feminist performance artist comedians is a global Fringe varsity team, coming together to make asses of the cultural biases that shape arts criticism.

The first rule of making art is don’t respond to your critics. But in the U.S. premiere of Wild Bore, three masters of smart, political and outrageous comedy delve into the torrent of critical fury that has been aimed at baffling, misunderstood and downright awful works of art — including their own.

“What great theatre is all about: a performance that is wild, incredibly beautiful, bravely defiant, and most importantly, far from boring.” — The Music

“Three comedians at the top of their game deliver a meta exploration of criticism and performance that is truly, outrageously funny.” – The Guardian Australia

SEPT. 27 & 28 ONLY! (2 SHOWS ON SEPT. 28TH)

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PROBLEM WORK OR “FAILURE” AS A FEMINIST ACT

Adrienne Truscott joined by makers David Thompson and Melanie George will present and talk about excerpts from a show that has caused her nothing but trouble—from the humorously banal to the deeply consequential, both personally and professionally. This show continues to teach her about her process, impulses and impulse control. She has learned strategies for responding to reviews that, while possibly accurate, are also gendered and misogynist, ways of interrogating one’s work and the cultural contexts in which it is made and presented. This show has now garnered her both 4- star reviews and lost her a job!

FREE! RSVP HERE

Gibney Dance 280 BROADWAY, ENTRANCE AT 53A CHAMBERS

Hey Upstate Friends and Friends with Upstate Friends, a show I directed is coming to Hudson!

David's Friend

Hudson Hall Saturday April 27th at 7pm

327 Warren St, Hudson NY on

I hope you can come (and stay for a drink after)!

About the show:

"A feisty and funny one-woman show...a continual pleasure" - Charles Isherwood, The New York Times

DAVID'S FRIEND

Written and performed by Nora Burns, Featuring Billy Hough of Scream Along With Billy, Directed by Adrienne Truscott

Tickets https://hudsonoperahouse.secure.force.com/ticket/#sections_a0F1Q00000OxUQTUA3

"The beauty of "David's Friend" is, you didn't have to be there. Burns was, and she brings it alive for the rest of us." - Marc Miller, NY Theatre Guide

"Nora is leading the charge out of our collective PTSD with love, humor and pelvic thrusts." - Ann Magnuson

"A potent performance about the passing of a great era, beautifully captured, with wells of compassion and funniness. I wish I had known David, now I do." - Sandra Bernhard

"Hilarious and incredibly moving - captures a moment in time so many of us closed the door on." - Jennifer Coolidge

(photo Patrick McMullan)

#AskingForIt at #GenderMainstreaming, a programme chock-full of feminist empowerment, gender diversity and gender equality! Together with guest artists from Rimini, Berlin, Hamburg, Glasgow, Brighton and New York! (C'est moi!!)

A celebration of autonomy and plurality at #Kampnagel in #Hamburg!! 💄🧠👩‍🎤🦆✈️

Amazing international artists here!

Here’s their lovely copy about my show….

9.3.2019 // 21.00 Adrienne Truscott // Asking For It!

German stand-up-comedy is not widely regarded for being especially feminist. This may be traced back to the continued reign of the most popular, mostly male performers who are successfully flogging their “Women make terrible drivers” cliches to further deteriorate mainstream culture. New-York comedienne Adrienne Truscott is one of the beacons of hope in the dark night of international comedy, demonstrating that being political and advancing the queer-feminist agenda does not mean you can’t have a sense of humour. Dressed only from the waist up (not counting her shoes), she breaks down how rape jokes work and makes her vagina speak – accompanied by pop music and sufficient amounts of Gin Tonic to get a “girl” into trouble. ASKING FOR IT is a celestial moment in comedy and one that was lightyears ahead of #metoo: vicious, courageous, hilarious and definitely uncensored!

Lots of funny ladies!

Janet Hyde

CD Clifford

Jenn Wehrung

Julie Kottakis

Adrienne Truscott

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VANCOUVER, CANADA.

Coming off 3-5 years touring her multi-award-winning Adrienne Truscott's Asking For It a simultaneously sobering and hilarious comedy about rape, rape culture and rape jokes - wherein she didn't wear any pants - Truscott is happy not to talk about rape for a while. But the show left her with the question, of course, what next? Is she a one-hit wonder? A comedian or a feminist performance artist? How do you follow up a show like that? Do you take more clothes off or put some on? What if failing arrogantly is a defiantly feminist act?

Her new show, Adrienne Truscott's A One-Trick Pony (Or Andy Kaufmann Is A Feminist Performance Artist and I'm A Comedian!) plums the joys and perils of mixing feminist performance art with stand up comedy. Bringing quirky 'high brow' performance roots to the low-down art of stand up comedy Truscott lets Kaufman's legacy guide her along that edge: if a show is doomed to ‘fail’ why not make a ‘failure’ and use Kaufman’s legendary ‘failures’ to frame it? She wrestles with standing up while telling jokes, the impossibility of 'second shows', irony, trolls and stealing 'material'. What if instead of making the follow-up show critics wanted her to make, she just made the show she wanted to make? Grappling hilariously with the art of being true to herself, while paying homage to one of comedy's greats, she literally wrestles the audience's expectations to the mat. She's found (stolen?) the perfect material but can she make it her own by curtains? One-Trick Pony or horse's ass? Who cares?! Giddy up, she's naked, funny and wants to wrestle.

The Australian Times says, 'A feminist masterpiece disguised behind dick-jokes and partial nudity. It’s brilliant!' 4.5 stars. Chortle gives it 2 stars and a definitive ‘Whatever’.

Jan 8. El Cid. Sunset Ave. 8pm

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New NYC reviews in!

'In the current climate, in which we’re constantly bombarded with a breakneck news cycle, the off-kilter rhythm of this show gives us a welcome chance to forego standard expectations and join Truscott in taking a step back to reset...Truscott is so damn funny throughout, there’s no way you can’t call her a comic. She approaches uncomfortable subjects with an ease that gives the crowd the green light to laugh. A great storyteller, she makes the crowd feel like they’re chatting in a small, intimate group of friends.' - BUST Magazine

'Weaving many threads together in one bizarre, culminating pose felt the most like Truscott channeling Kaufman, perhaps because it had that same flavor of absurdity and the same sense that the performer behind the persona is just delighted to be doing his or her work. There were so many moments in this piece with such exuberance, and it made ONE TRICK PONY amusing and thought-provoking the whole way through. This show is not to be missed.' - Broadway World

'I LOVE Adrienne Truscott! Her comedic genius pushes the envelope every time. From rape culture to being labeled a feminist performance artist, Adrienne tackles it all in her comedy shows. The title alone peaked my interest and after seeing this show in June at Joe's Pub, I can't stop thinking about it.' - Call Me Adam

‘Nutty comic genius.’ West Australian ****

Source:: https://bust.com/entertainment/194837-adrienne-truscott-a-one-trick-pony.html

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