The Well of Horniness by Holly Hughes – Where Women Are Women And So Are The Men

Finally, the story they said couldn’t be told shatters the airwaves! The Well of Horniness, by Holly Hughes – where women are women and so are the men. The Well of Horniness is a high-camp low-brow Sapphic murder mystery with one corpse, lusty lesbians, murderous dykes and mysterious women, in the cliff-hanging style of an old-time radio show.

As you enter the theatre, you are transported back in time to a live 1940’s radio studio replete with 40’s costumes, lighted applause sign, onstage sound effects, (bicycle horn, electric blender, wooden blocks, etc.). The five women make fifty costume changes onstage with wigs, hats, fake noses, feather boas. The cast plays more than 30 characters including men (a police chief named Al Dente, a “lady dick” named Garnet McClit) in the story of Vicki, a bride-to-be on the run from the notorious Tridelta Tribads, a lesbian sorority of sin. Along the way, Vicki spars with Rod, her dumb-as-mud fiance, outwits a homicidal hat-check girl named Babs and escapes a jail cell full of dykes. Ibsen it ain’t.

Playwright Hughes is a performance artist best known for annoying Jesse Helms and helping to forever politicize the National Endowment for the Arts. Along with Tim Miller, Karen Finley, and John Fleck, she is known as one of the NEA Four. Her open, often, raw sexuality rattled both ends of the political spectrum. She writes in a program note that the best thing about The Well of Horniness is that it “utterly lacks redeeming social value.” The Village Voice says of Ms. Hughes, “She’s hell on heels” and the New York Times states “Hughes scrapes away decades of encrusted decorum from a subject (female sexuality) that is too often treated with hushed sentimentality.” This 75 minute raunchy romp is part soap opera, part dyke noir, all silliness. Come prepared to have fun. If you dress in 1940’s attire, you will have the opportunity to win a prize. This production is definitely not for the under-18 set.

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Box Office Hours: 20 minutes before showtime