Infamous fashion and club-land icon Leigh Bowery serves as emcee and fabulous interlocutor for this exploration of one of our most enigmatic stars. Drawing on text from the worlds of cultural theory and popular culture and based on an essay written by Gaga herself while she was attending NYU, ‘Of a Monstrous Child’ seeks out the place where tabloid meets thesis for an elicit rendezvous, and where high culture hooks up with low art. A dance-floor dialectic between one empowered super-fan and one suspicious art ***. Part celebration, part indictment and nothing if not monstrous; a dissertation on decadence.
Featuring a live DJ and spectacular costumes inspired by some of the underground’s most outrageous stars.
‘Of a Monstrous Child’ will receive a workshop production as a part of a residency at Buddies In Bad Times Theatre in February of 2011.