DIRTY BOOKS is an immersive performance that plunges audiences into the heated battles over anti-obscenity laws and censorship in America. Inspired by the true stories of erotic fiction writers of the 1960’s and using actual Supreme Court transcripts, DIRTY BOOKS reveals the ingenuity and resilience of artists who thrived in the shadows of America’s anti-obscenity laws working in the soft-core adult publishing industry. Inside an intimate world of secret bookstores, banned novels, and underground desire, the audience collaborates with the company to compose an erotic story. Each night, the story is created live in the room and published online after each show.
 
Produced by Bated Breath Theatre Company and written and directed by Mara Lieberman, DIRTY BOOKS stars Marisa Moureau, Alexis Pratt, Melina Rabin, Sammy Rivas and Grayson Willenbacher with understudies Emily Cummings, Caroline DeFazio, Billie Eric Robinson and Camilo Zuqui. The production team includes Jacob P.S Lemmenes (technical director), Yung-Hung Sung (lighting), Junran “Charlotte” Shi (set), Lauren DeLeon (intimacy coordinator), Delaney Jordan (stage manager) and Victoria Blas (assistant stage manager).