John Waters - This Filthy World

The brilliantly entertaining filmmaker, writer and shock auteur supremo, John Waters is coming to Wellington to perform live, for the first time, in late October with his deviously funny one man show This Filthy World.

In this rapid-fire monologue celebrating his joyously bad taste, Waters will regale with stories about his career from the Underground to Hollywood. This Filthy World celebrates the film career and obsessive tastes of the man William Burroughs once called “The Pope of Trash”.  Focusing on Waters’ early artistic influences, his fascination with true crime, exploitation films, fashion lunacy, and the extremes of the contemporary art world, this joyously devious performance elevates all that is trashy in life into a call to arms to filth followers everywhere.

America's royal raconteur and director of cult film classics such as Pink Flamingos starring Divine, Hairspray, Cry Baby starring Johhny Depp, Serial Mom starring Kathleen Turner and Polyester.
Since his teenage years, John Waters has used Baltimore, which he fondly dubbed the "Hairdo Capitol of the World," as the setting for all his films, forging an unwavering path in his quest to give bad taste a good name.

Waters says This Filthy Word is "a self-help group for people who don't need self-help. It's to try to make you feel good about being nuts, which I think is important these days."

The LA Times described Waters as “an erudite and gifted raconteur who doesn't take himself too seriously. Waters never seems to tire of wallowing in the dregs of pop culture, but his love of campy sex and tabloid mayhem is married with an intense appreciation for literature, history and high art.” Waters’ love of art saw him selected as a member of the International Jury for the 2011 Venice Art Biennale this year.

This Filthy World will also draw on material from Waters’ most recent book, Role Models, described as “a study in lunatic admiration, a tribute to self-acceptance and tolerance and a joyful and witty celebration of life,” (Sun Herald).

The Filthy Word is an essential experience for anyone interested in how not to make a movie, how to become famous (read infamous) and how to shock and make people laugh.

Venue
The Opera House

Performance
8pm, Mon 31 Oct

Tickets
Adult $76.50*
Students $70.50*
*Service fees apply