Dino-Ray Ramos Associate Editor/ReporterIn 2009, award-winning playwright Katori Hall started research for her play Pussy Valley, which put a spotlight on the world of stripping.
She stepped into the heels of these women, took pole dancing classes and even spent her 30th birthday in the locker room of the New York strip club Sin City Bronx.
On the surface, Hall’s experiences to inform her play seem like a fun adventure, but in reality, it was a cultural study to inform a more in-depth story about these women, their experiences, personal narratives and the stigma that is often attached to their profession.
The play deconstructs the stereotypes these women are often subject to and doesn’t just make it about hyper-sexualized pole dancing.
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