Lipstick Traces

Rude Mechs brings its unique blend of physicality, intelligence, and caustic wit to this manic adaptation of the cult classic by Greil Marcus. The intrepid Dr. Narrator joins Sex Pistols’ manager and self-proclaimed mastermind, Malcolm McLaren to recount an alternative history of the 20th century via the Sex Pistols, the Cabaret Voltaire, the May ’68 riots, and a handful of medieval heretics. Lipstick Traces is a physically ecstatic and intellectually nervy theatrical vision of “movements in culture that raised no monuments, . . . movements that barely left a trace.”