January 4 – January 15, 2012

Co-Presented by The Public Theater’s Under the Radar Festival and La MaMa
biriken & Ayça Damgacı (Turkey)
Directed by biriken (Melis Tezkan-Okan Urun)
Written by Özen Yula

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 arts 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.

Wednesday, Jan 4, 8:30pm
Thursday, Jan 5, 7pm
Saturday, Jan 7, 2pm
Sunday, Jan 8, 8:30pm
Monday, Jan 9, 8:30pm
Wednesday, Jan 11, 7pm
Friday, Jan 13, 7pm
Saturday, Jan 14, 2:30pm
Sunday, Jan 15, 7pm