2021 Workshops
Educational programming at the Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival includes two interactive workshops providing creative responses to censorship.
All workshops are 90 minutes long. Workshops are included in Carte Blanche Passes and are an option for Flex Pass and Day Pass-holders. Individual workshops cost $40 each or $30 for currently enrolled college or university students.
Lefty Lucy’s
Create Your Own Burlesque
The Institute’s Burlesque Workshop will be hosted by Lefty Lucy, Miss Coney Island 2011. She’ll strip away preconceptions and reveal some of the classic moves of this uniquely American art form, including tassel twirling and a number of the titillating moves that make burlesque empowering, fun, and threatening. Workshop participants will discover the silly and sordid history of striptease, learn just how many different ways there are to burlesque, and explore how to put together their own act.
Penny Arcade’s
Who Can Say What To Whom?
Fear, Silencing and the Threat to Free Thinking
Penny Arcade, along with her longtime creative partner Steve Zehentner, develop their newest work with input from a live audience. As calls for silencing expression grow, Penny has been focusing her thoughts about censorship as self-righteousness. Become a part of the creative process as the project moves from page to stage.
In Penny’s own words:
“We are living through a period of bourgeoning mind and language control unlike any that has been seen since the Pilgrims imported their austere guidelines of social order onto these shores. Those who think and speak outside the strictures of approved language are attacked, marginalized, silenced, sometimes forced out of their careers. What is lost when a person's race, sexual preference, or gender is used to discredit their ideas rather than the merit of the thought? What is lost when the individual voice is silenced? “