This Filthy world: An evening with John Waters

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Group Therapy VIP Ticket – includes a small group post show Q&A with John, an autographed show poster, and the ability to take a selfie from distance with John on stage. 

John Waters’ one man spoken-word lecture is performed at colleges, museums, film-festivals and comedy clubs around the world. He has played to sold out audiences at the Traverse City Comedy Arts Festival, the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, Bonnaroo, the Sydney Opera House, Volksbühne Berlin, and Southbank Centre in London.SOLD out POP MONTREAL! Audiences in all languages love John Waters

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. 

“FALSE NEGATIVE” is Waters’s rapid-fire one-man spoken word “vaudeville” act that celebrates the film career and joyously appalling taste of the man 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. His live performances focus 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. 

CREDITS

Director Filmography

2004 A Dirty Shame 

2000 Cecil B. Demented

1998 Pecker

1994 Serial Mom

1990 Cry-Baby

1988 Hairspray

1981 Polyester

1977 Desperate Living

1974 Female Trouble

1972 Pink Flamingos

1970 Multiple Maniacs 

         The Diane Linkletter Story

1969 Mondo Trasho

1967 Eat Your Makeup

1966 Roman Candles

1964 Hag in a Black Leather Jacket

*For this show, audience members are required to show proof of vaccination or negative COVID test (must be dated 48 hours from the date of the event) for entry.