Let Them Eat Cake: Benefit Performance
A&D Associate Professor Holly Hughes will perform Let Them Eat Cake in a special benefit opening for New York’s Dixon Place on Thursday, December 2nd. Hughes’ Let Them Eat Cake is an interactive performance piece which stages the debate on gay marriage, created in collaboration with Megan Carney and Maureen Angelos.
It’s the wedding nightmare your mother warned you about: a gay marriage gone wrong that asks the guests to salvage the situation by interrogating what it means to be married, single, gay, straight, commitment-phobic, a joiner, included or jeering from the outskirts. Come for the cake, if nothing else!
The honor of your presence is requested at the opening night Special Benefit Performance on Thursday, December 2nd, which includes a post-show conversation hosted by Carmelita Tropicana with Freedom to Marry’s Executive Director Evan Wolfson, special performances by Joseph Keckler and Erin Markey and a champagne and cake reception! And DJ Lori E. Seid will spin some happy tunes!Additional shows:
Friday and Saturday, December 3 & 4 at 7:30 pm
Thursdays — Saturdays, 9 — 11, 16 — 18 at 7:30pm
Saturday matinees, December 4 & 11 at 2pm
Dixon Place, 161A Chrystie St. New York, NY 10002
Read more about the show: Village Voice: Lay of the Land and Let Them Eat Cake Draw the Battle Lines