Town Bloody Hall

“Town Bloody Hall. I love nothing more than when misogynists and feminists have a fight at a large event space. That’s what this is about. I can watch it for hours and then put it on again.”

“Town Bloody Hall. And this one is really great. I had the opportunity to direct the brilliant Jacqueline Novak’s comedy special, Get on Your Knees, at Town Hall. And I had the opportunity to hang out with Chris Hegedus, who was D. A. Pennebaker’s wife and collaborator frequently, and we based a lot of the aesthetic on this, you know, Norman Mailer getting grilled by Germaine Greer and so on. The lo-fi nature of it.”

“Town Bloody Hall. Okay, so this is a documentary by D. A. Pennebaker that took place in 1972 or something. Norman Mailer, a famed misogynist, hosting a conversation about “women’s lib.” And I was quite taken by Germaine Greer, and just the level of conversation. And so I took this and I brought it to the Wooster Group, and then we made a play based on it. I love that movie. It’s a big thing in my life, Town Bloody Hall. We called the play The Town Hall Affair.”