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The Civilians: Pretty Filthy
A New Musical About The Other Hollywood
Thursday, February 19, 2015 at 8:00PM

Abrons Art Center, Playhouse Theater
466 Grand Street
New York, NY 10002
466 Grand Street, on the corner of Pitt Street
F/M or J/Z to Delancey/Essex; B/D to Grand St.


Armed with their notepads and recorders, artists from the intrepid investigative theater company The Civilians crossed the mountain range that divides Hollywood from the “other Hollywood”--the San Fernando Valley, world capital of porn. The Civilians’ crew listened and learned, conducting interviews and visiting sets to get an insider’s glimpse into a world that is far more than the sum of its (very) visible parts. The creative team learned firsthand that the words of one interviewee, the legendary Nina Hartley, were quite true--that “watching people have sex on camera is far less sexy and far more ridiculous than you might think.” The Civilians’ time in the Valley captured a singular time in our culture; this digital era that’s radically transformed the business of sex. Pretty Filthy is ultimately a story about trying to make a life and a living in an ever-changing world—a task that’s all the more complicated when your work is so intimately tied to customer “satisfaction.”