JOHN WATERS: FILTHIER & DIRTIER

Showings

The Englert Theatre Sat, Oct 1, 2016 7:00 PM
Series Info
Series:Special Event
Deep Waters
Film Info
Director:John Waters
Year Released:2016
Website:http://bit.ly/29Sabmk

Description

Co-presented by FilmScene and The Englert Theatre with Deluxe Cakes & Pastries

Live at The Englert Theatre
Saturday, October 1 at 7pm


Buy Tickets Now at the Englert website or box office.


$35 public / $30 FilmScene Members and Friends of the Englert
$100 VIP package including Zone 1 Premium Reserved Seating and an exclusive post-show reception with John Waters.

FilmScene and The Englert are excited to announce that superlatively sleazy, fabulously filthy filmmaker filmmaker, screenwriter, author, and comedian John Waters will return to the Englert stage for "Filthier & Dirtier," live on Saturday, October 1st at 7pm.

In honor of his visit to Iowa City, FilmScene will program a special John Waters film series in September. Details TBA soon!

John Waters is a man of many monikers: The Prince of Puke, The Duke of Dirt, The Sultan of Sleaze. Anyway you put it, John Waters is famed the world over for his trash epics including Pink Flamingos, Female Trouble, Desperate Living, Polyester, Serial Mom, Pecker, Cecil B. Demented, and A Dirty Shame. Two of his more surprisingly commercial films have been adapted for the stage. Hairspray, winner of eight Tony Awards and Cry Baby - The Musical nominated for four Tony Awards. In the summer of 2007, Hairspray reinvented itself cinematically as a big-budget Hollywood movie starring John Travolta that became a smash hit worldwide.

"Filthier and Dirtier" is the follow up to Mr. Waters' rapid-fire one-man spoken word "vaudeville" act that he performed at The Englert during Mission Creek Festival 2012. Expect an updated and current exploration into the mind and life of an artistic genies, the man who William Burroughs once called "The Pope of Trash". Updated and expanded from the original film version that enjoyed critical success at the Edinburgh, Toronto and Berlin Film Festivals, the live performance of "This Filthy World" focuses on Waters’s early negative artistic influences, his fascination with true crime, exploitation films, fashion lunacy, the extremes of the art world, Catholicism, sexual deviancy and a love of reading.

Tickets are $30 Zone 2 Reserved Seating for Friends of the Englert and FilmScene Members, $35 Zone 2 Public Reserved Seating, and $100 VIP package including Zone 1 Premium Reserved Seating and an exclusive post-show reception with John Waters.