Penny Arcade is a force of nature.

Longing Lasts Longer is Edinburgh’s double award-winning show from New York’s undisputed queen of the underground, which turns contemporary stand-up on its head to create a crack in the post-gentrified landscape.

Driven by her magnetic rock n’ roll energy, Arcade’s razor-sharp satire is mixed live to euphoric soundscapes inspired by four decades of pop culture.

A blow against the golden age of stupidity, this is a passionate and exuberant performance anthem where you can think, laugh and dance at the same time!

Lublin audiences remember this piece very well, as the bravura show titled Bitch! Dyke! Faghag! Whore! made a huge impact on last year’s Konfrontacje Festival. Penny Arcade returns once more with her latest show.

Penny Arcade is an internationally respected writer, poet, actress and theatre maker and an icon of artistic resistance. She is one of the very few artists in the world who practices long form performance art, a form of experimental theatre that investigates the boundaries between traditional theatre and performance. Her decades-long focus on the creation of community as the goal of performance, her use of performance as a transformative act mark her as a true original in American Theatre. A former Andy Warhol Factory Superstar, featured in in the Warhol/Morrissey film Women in Revolt, Penny occupies a unique position in the American avant-garde through her long association with the architects of the American counter-culture, including John Vaccaro, Charles Henri Ford and Judith Malina, among many others. Penny is also known for her highly quotable one-liners; and the late, great Quentin Crisp named her as his soul mate and the woman he most identified with.

Penny has written over ten full-length shows and hundreds of solo performance art pieces notable for their improvisation and what Penny Arcade calls “spite-specific” nature. Her world-famous sex and censorship show, Bitch! Dyke! Faghag! Whore!, has been performed in over 30 cities around the world and was successfully revived for its 20th anniversary with 48 performances in London in 2012.

Recently together with artists like Philip Glass, Fran Lebowitz and Edmund White, The New York Times cited her among the artists and thinkers that define New York City in “They Made New York”, and proclaimed her a “force in Edinburgh” with Longing Lasts Longer.

Creative producer
Jeremy Goldstein

Produced by London Artists Projects