[dorkbotphiladelphia-announce] PATRIOT ACT! a performance at Nexus Gallery January 29th - One night only!

[Chris Vecchio, PhD]

Temporary/Industrial Arts and the Nexus Gallery present

    PATRIOT ACT! 

A ruthless HyperVaudeville of the most invasive law ever passed in US History. 

Created and Performed by: 
    Joe Shahadi and The Lovely and Talented Miss Toni Silver
    Nina Mankin - Dramaturg

PATRIOT ACT is like a "Schoolhouse Rock" for angry grown-ups. 
In just under an hour, performance artists Silver and Shahadi
explain how the law impacts the civil liberties of every American 
using text from the actual act, a box of old LPs and some jet black humor.

    Saturday, January 29 - 8:00pm
    Nexus Gallery
    137 North 2nd St., Philadelphia
    Reservations/information: 215-629-1103
    Tickets: $10

"Toni and Joe bring their dark humor to a grim subject, the loss of
our  constitutional rights under the Patriot Act....These guys really 
bring it to life, they've done an  amazing job!"
    --Nancy Chang, Senior Litigation Attorney, Center for Constitutional Rights

The Lovely and Talented Miss Toni Silver is a Jewish Lesbian raconteur
with rapier wit and Saint Joe Shahadi is a Lebanese-American Catholic boy/anarchist. 

"Patriot Act" premiered in June 2004 at OneArmRed in DUMBO.  
Miss Toni and Saint Joe and have entertained audiences with their biting
political satire since 2000, performing at venues such as, HERE, 
The Culture Project @ 45  Bleecker, Ohio Theatre, Chashama,
manhattantheatresource and Grove Street Playhouse.  

For their solo work, 
The Philadelphia Weekly called Joe "masterful, brutish, and graceful"
Wiley Press has called Toni   "captivating, original, funny, (and) in-your-face  honest."

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