Elevator Repair Service Theater

In Arguendo, ERS tackles Barnes v. Glen Theatre, a 1991 U.S. Supreme Court case. Brought by a group of go-go dancers who claimed a First Amendment right to dance totally nude, the case examines an Indiana law that banned public nudity. The justices ask whether naked erotic dancing is artistic expression or immoral conduct. Arguendo is a staging of Barnes v. Glen Theatre's entire oral argument, verbatim, interspersed with bits of interviews with the justices, the lawyers and an exotic dancer who traveled all the way from the Deja Vu Club in Michigan to listen to the argument at the Supreme Court.