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Richard Pryor’s 1977 Stand-Up Reenactment | SF

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Thursday, February 6, 2014 - 7:00 pm | Cost: FREE
CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts | 360 Kansas St, San Francisco, CA

Event Details

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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Cost: FREE
Categories: *Top Pick*, Art & Museums, Comedy, San Francisco, San FranFREEsco, Theater & Performance
Address: 360 Kansas St, San Francisco, CA