This anthology spans a century of American mythology, featuring celebrated works originally staged by the Funhouse Philosophers Theater Company. Witness an 18-year-old Al Capone’s violent transformation into “Scarface” in a “Dirty Dinner Theater Brechtian Cabaret,” follow the discovery and “whips and chains” evolution of pin-up icon Bettie Page, and join Russian revolutionary Maxim Gorky as he denounces the “spiritual poverty” of the 1905 “City of Fire”. From the drug-induced mechanical horrors of The Ride Inspector’s Nightmare to the surreal tableaus of Lillie’s World in Wax, Zigun delivers scripts that are as historical as they are hauntingly strange.
The book is illustrated with beautiful photographs of the original productions by Coney Island’s legendary Norman Blake.
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