67th Obie Awards: Peggy Shaw and Lois Weaver Acceptance Speech
These two performance artists' radical vision of what theater can be has shaped generations of artists since their debut in the 1980s at the WOW Café Theater. For decades, in plays such as Split Britches and the more recent Last Gasp, their seismic influence cannot be overstated in works that celebrate the everyday, valuing the mundane, elevating the personal, and performing yearning lesbian fantasies with inventive…