Richard Pryor’s 1977 Stand-Up Reenactment | SF

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Dick’s Last Stand is a free and public reenactment of stand-up by Richard Pryor by New York-based artist Donelle Woolford.

Through the picaresque adventures of a character named Richard (aka “Dick”) Dick’s Last Stand is a 40-minute reenactment of the stand-up routine that Richard Pryor performed in 1977. The routine is a subversive work of deconstruction and social commentary that, by Pryor’s design, was censored from the final NBC broadcast.

Woolford’s cathartic new body of work chronicles the place of honor afforded the male sex organ in American art and politics, and continues the oral tradition of phallic humor and innuendo in popular culture.

Dick’s Last Stand honors Pryor’s brash political humor and marks its return to the live stage, where its allegories on race, conformity, representation, and subterfuge are as painfully hilarious as ever.

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