The audience's prerogatives - usually just for comicĮffect - and subverting the material in the process. Lesley's character is intrusive, often misappropriating

The shopkeeper turned putative punk rock impresario, is more The other, Malcolm McLaren (David Greenspan), Narrator (Lana Lesley), serves as both host and

Production introduces not one but two narrators. In order to tie the loose ends of those pieces together, the Much to commend in this effort, and some of its pieces are Walked out on the Pistol's last concert.) But there is ('Ever get theįeeling you've been cheated?' asked Rotten as he Like most all of the efforts to realize a book on stage, fans Rocker Johnny Rotten (Jason Liebrecht) of the Sex Pistols. ' the Dickensian figure with the green teeth,' punk Stops), Marcus arrives at his destination in the 1970's: Of the 1950's and 60's (among other intermediate Jumping forward to the Dadaists of the second decade of theĢ0th Century, and then on to the Lettrists and Situationists Redemption in the negation of society's sense of order. Leyden disavowed the Protestant work ethic, and found Headed a group of Anabaptists in Munster, Germany. There he uncovers aĭutch heretic, John of Leyden (Ean Sheehy), who in 1534 He goes back to the 16th Century to discover the roots of the It is in fact an odd but interestingĬoincidence that serves as the thread that connects the two Stage adaptation is based, found a way to make history Greil Marcus, on whose cult opus this Texas-originated McLaren's views on history notwithstanding, rock critic

Lipstick Traces by Greil Marcus