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The Last Days of Desmond Nani Reese: A Stripper’s History of the World
May 8-May 18, 2008
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It's the year 2014 and a young “ethno-femino-dance anthropologist” travels to a post-quake, post-drought afflicted Los Angeles to research her 10,000-page dissertation on “The History of the World, as Told by Loose Women.” Her final subject: the half-mad, 108-year old legendary stripper Desmond “Nani” Reese, who is holed up in a shack on an Echo Park hillside overlooking the five freeway. With some prodding, the profanity-spewing recluse -who often insists on conversing with her 27 cats- unfurls a life story that includes surviving the Oklahoma dust bowl, riding the rails as a girl wrestler, and close encounters with Salvador Dali at the 1939 World’s Fair. As tensions rise, Amber, the young academic, is at last compelled to confront her own hidden life as a dabbler in the erotic underworld. In the process, these two unlikely heroines puzzle out the history of the 20th century and the future of our planet, and what that has to do with outlaw females throughout human kind’s history- from high priestess oracles in the caves of ancient Greece – to forgotten “show-girls” in bramble covered shacks. Helpful Information: Mother's Day Special! All moms get in free, Sunday, May 11.
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Tickets: $10-$30
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May 8-May 18, 2008Times:
Thursday-Sunday (5/8-5/11) 8:00pm, (5/14-5/18) Wednesday-Sunday 8:00pm -
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