Arguendo

September 24, 2013 - October 26, 2013

Produced by Elevator Repair Service @ The Public Theater

425 Lafayette Street, New York, NY, USA

Behind the scenes

John Collins (Director), David Zinn (Set Designer), Mark Barton (Lighting Designer), Matt Tierney (Sound Designer), Jason Sebastion (Sound Engineer), Jacob E. Climer (Costume Designer), Maurina Lioce (Stage Manager), & Ariana Smart Truman (Producer)

Starring

Maggie Hoffman, Mike Iveson, Vin Knight, Susie Sokol, & Ben Jalosa Williams

Performance Type

Theater

ABOUT THE SHOW

ERS takes on The Supreme Court.


In Arguendo, ERS tackles Barnes v. Glen Theatre, a 1991 U.S. Supreme Court case. Brought by a group of erotic dancers who claimed a First Amendment right to dance totally nude, the case examines an Indiana law that banned public nudity. At oral argument, the Justices attempt to define dance, ponder nudity in opera houses vs. strip-clubs, and ask whether naked erotic dancing is artistic expression or immoral conduct.


Arguendo is a staging of Barnes v. Glen Theatre’s entire oral argument, verbatim, set against Ben Rubin’s OBIE-award winning projection design of animated text. The argument is interspersed with bits of real interviews with the justices, the lawyers and an exotic dancer who traveled all the way from the Déja Vu Club in Saginaw, Michigan to listen to the argument at The Supreme Court.

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