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Theatre
Anger/Nation

When

Sep 11, 2008 – Sep 27, 2008

Thursdays–Saturdays (8pm)

Where
The Kitchen (512 W 19th St, 212.255.5793)
Price
$15
Details
http://www.thekitchen.org/
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A divisive female figure appears on the American political scene, promising to push the nation toward her own right-wing agenda — sound familiar? In Anger/Nation, the anarchists of Brooklyn's Radiohole theatre company present the memoirs of Carrie A. Nation, a fiery prohibitionist who chopped beer bottles with an axe and thought most problems could be solved with a swift blow from her weapon. The show, inspired by the aesthetic of cult filmmaker Kenneth Anger, is willfully extreme and bizarre, and rips apart the repression/hedonism duality at the core of American society. Free beer for the audience makes the weirdness go down a little more smoothly.

John Peacock