Boston Center for the Arts - Calderwood Pavilion (Boston, MA)
In their newest show, Miss America, Obie Award-winning Peggy Shaw and Lois Weaver of Split Britches turn their unapologetic critique and riotous humor loose on the dissolution of the American Dream. A beauty pageant on a landfill of too much information, Miss America exposes what is lost in a society that is still hopelessly clinging to winning.
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The Calderwood Pavilion – housing the 360–seat Virginia Wimberly Theatre and the 200–seat Nancy and Edward Roberts Studio Theatre – is managed by the Huntington and programmed jointly with the Boston Center for the Arts.
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Split Britches, the legendary Obie Award-winning playwright/performers, return to Boston with their most timely show ever. Peggy Shaw and Lois Weaver expose what we've lost as America still clings to desperate triumphalism. Miss America is a beautiful and heady twister of the American Dream...or what's left of it.
Since 1981, Split Britches, founded by Lois Weaver, Peggy Shaw, and Deb Margolin, has created five pieces in trio: Split Britches, Beauty and the Beast, Upwardly Mobile Home, Little Women - The Tragedy and Lesbians Who Kill. As a duet, Peggy Shaw and Lois Weaver have collaborated with Holly Hughes in Dress Suits To Hire, Bloolips in Belle Reprieve, Gay Sweatshop in Lust and Comfort, Stacy Makishi in Salad of the Bad Cafe, and Clod Ensemble in It's a Small House and We Lived in It Always. Solo performances include: Peggy Shaw's Menopausal Gentleman, You're Just Like My Father and To My Chagrin; Lois Weaver's Faith and Dancing, What Tammy Needs to Know and Diary of a Domestic Terrorist; Deb Margolin's Carthieves! Joyrides! Of All The Nerve, 970-Debb, Gestation and Of Mice and Bugs and Women.
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