Co-presented by The Public's Under The Radar Festival and La MaMa
biriken collective & Ayça Damgaci (Turkey)
Written by Özen Yula
Directed by biriken (Melis Tezkan and Okan Urun)
Running Time: 75 minutes
$20 Tickets: lamama.org or 212-475-7710
(On Sale December 6)
La MaMa 66 East 4th Street
An angel comes down from heaven but finds herself in the body of a porn star. The clock is ticking – who can she save? Or is it just a dream of a porn star to save herself and the world? A hybrid of comedy, video and existential inquiry, LICK BUT DON’T SWALLOW! was only performed once in Istanbul, due to protests by a fundamentalist newspaper.
LICK BUT DON’T SWALLOW! was directed by biriken (an interdisciplinary art collective based in Istanbul and Paris) in collaboration with Ayça Damgacı (actress and screenwriter of Gitmek: My Marlon and Brando) and written by leading Turkish playwright Özen Yula. A co-production with Bimeras (TR) | iDANS.
With Ayça Damgacı, Hakan Ummak, Koray Kadiraga, Melis Tezkan, Okan Urun. Light design by Metin Celebi.
Travel support provided by LaGuardia Performing Arts Center (LPAC). Special thanks to Moon and Stars Project.
Performed in Turkish with English supertitles.