Lipstick traces marcus6/30/2023 ![]() ![]() The show is a thrilling high-wire act, always teetering towards too much or not enough, never falling. Adapted in 1999 by Austin’s Rude Mechs company (from rock critic Greil Marcus’ sprawling 1989 tome Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century), the play is a dizzying, sometimes incoherent exegesis positing that the philosophic underpinnings of 16th century Anabaptist John of Leiden, the early 20th-century Dada movement, and the French student riots of May 1968 reached their apotheosis with the advent of the punk rock music scene-most specifically, with The Sex Pistols as led by Johnny Rotten. ![]() The danger of Lipstick Traces, which just concluded its one-weekend run at Outcry Theatre, is the same is its appeal-this thing should not be stageable. The Sex Pistols, “Anarchy in the U.K.”, Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s the Sex Pistols. Each time I ran into Tristan Tzara, he’d say to me: ‘So? You’re picking up the pieces! Do you plan to put them back together?’ I always answered: ‘No – I’m going to finish smashing them’”-Henri Lefebvre, early member of the Dada movement “Dada smashes the world, but the pieces are fine. ![]()
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