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THE DOG AND PONY SHOW (Bring Your Own Pony)
The Dog and Pony Show (Bring Your Own Pony) is a new solo performance written and performed by 2010 Guggenheim Fellow Holly Hughes and directed by Dan Hurlin. A blend of autobiography, animal behavior and bald-faced lies, the show is a comic/poetic meditation on a midlife crisis in the key of canine. After several years as a self-described "professional homosexual" spent preaching to the perverted and getting in the craw of the religious right, Hughes disbands her one (wo)man dog and pony show, takes a real job at a prestigious university, acquiring a small pack of dogs, and must ask herself: what is the sound of one lesbian clapping? (Could it be barking?)
Holly Hughes received two Village Voice OBIE awards for her performance work, and is a 2010-11 Guggenheim Fellow. She is the author of Clit Notes: A Sapphic Sampler, a collection of five of her earliest performance works, published by Grove and nominated for a Lambda Book Award. With David Roman she co-edited O Solo Homo: The New Queer Performance also published by Grove and the winner of the Lambda Book Award. Her pieces including The Well of Horniness, Dress Suits to Hire, and solos such as World Without End and Preaching to the Perverted have been presented throughout the US at venues ranging from the Guggenheim Museum to Yale Rep, the Victory Gardens Theatre in Chicago and Yerba Buena Arts Center in San Francisco to accolades from the press and death threats from the religious right.
In 1990 she was one of the 4 performance artists awarded NEA funding that was later revoked under pressure from the religious right, catapulting Hughes into the center of the culture wars, an experience that is the basis of Preaching to the Perverted. She has received funding from sources including the NEA, the New York State Council on the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, Creative Capitals MAP Fund, and the University of Michigan's Arts of Citizenship, among others.
Current project include Memories of the Revolution: The first ten years at the WOW Café, co-edited with Alina Troyano and forthcoming from the University of Michigan Press and Let Them Eat Cake, an interactive theatre piece exploring the complexities of gay marriage and created in collaboration with Megan Carney and Moe Angelos, which premiered at Dixon Place in 2010. Hughes is an Associate Professor at the University of Michigan. www.hollyhughesperformance.com
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LocationGLCCB & Iron Crow Theatre
241 W. Chase Street
Baltimore, MD 21201
United States
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