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Peg-Ass-Us
I'm planning to check this out., it looks interesting and has bi themes floating around in there somewhere. It also made me learn a new word. Apparently "pegging" is when a woman uses a strap-on on a man.
Sheela
Performed and Created by John Leo & Sophie Nimmannit
A Production of Pack of Others (www.packofothers.org)
July 10th, 11th & 12th at 8 PM
HOT! Festival at Dixon Place - www.dixonplace.org
258 Bowery (between Prince & Houston) NYC
$15 ($12 student/senior)
Reservations 219-0736 ext:110 "Pack of Others"
Advance tickets: https://www.ovationtix.com/trs/cal/171
A tale of boy-meets-girl, but the whole involves much more than the sum of their parts! In a no-holes-barred sexploration of “pegging,” these lovers sing, dance and tease along the delicious line between fetish/preference, queer/straight, wrong and oh-so right..
This show contains nudity and sexually explicit content.
Fresh from the Montreal Fringe Festival where audiences said:
*****I really enjoyed this show. I think it's an awesome exploration of how it feels to prefer sexual activities that are perceived to be outside of the norm.
****Heartfelt, Honest, NUDITY. WHAT MORE COULD you want in a fringe show?
****The show was incredible and entertaining. Kind of like the sex ed you wish you'd had in high school- plus John and Sophie are way hotter than the football coach who skipped right over the joys of anal in my sex ed class. Way too fun to be missed!
****A hilariously penetrating look at a practice that deserves more exposure. Go see this, unless you're a prude.
(And a favorite criticism...which still gave us stars...)
****Ok- these guys are very sweet - but a whole hour on the joys of anal pleasure?! Come on guys! There's more to life than playing with your bottoms...
Peg–Ass–Us is part of the HOT! Festival, Dixon Place's 17th Annual Celebration of Queer Culture. The show premiered at the 2008 Montreal Fringe Festival in June. In September, the show will travel to the San Francisco Fringe Festival, where it will be hosted by the Center for Sex and Culture (directed by Dr. Carol Queen, who starred in the "wildly successful" 1998 film Bend Over Boyfriend.) Pack of Others' first show FLUID, a personal exploration of “bisexuality,” by founding member Erika Kate MacDonald, toured to Minneapolis, Boulder, NYC, and Portland last year. This fall, FLUID will appear at the San Francisco Fringe Festival and the Montreal Harvest Festival.
A note from Sophie Nimmannit (co-creator & star)
There are 2 characters in the show, a couple, set out to talk to the audience all about pegging, and as they discussion progresses, they come into conflict about how to present the act & its implications. One (John) wants to make pegging acceptable for "normal" straight couples - essentially telling the audience that they can peg and still be straight. His constant emphasis on those words - "straight" and "normal" frustrates his partner, (Sophie), who wants to explore & celebrate how anal sex & using sex toys de-genders sexuality, and encourage the audience to open how they think about sex.
Outside of the show - I identify as bisexual, and John identifies as straight (though he has previously identified as bisexual.) Our characters are based upon ourselves and our experiences, and the conflict in the show is very much based on arguments we had about how to make this show.
