

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: John Waters' "DESPERATE LIVING" (1977) on the BIG SCREEN!
- **Event Start and End Date**: Wed, 25 Jun, 2025 at 07:30 pm
- **Event Description**: Neurotic and delusional suburban housewife Peggy Gravel and her overweight maid, Grizelda Brown, go on the lam after Grizelda smothers Peggy's husband Bosley to death. A cross-dressing policeman arrests the pair and gives them an ultimatum: go to jail or be exiled to Mortville, a filthy shantytown ruled by the evil Queen Carlotta and her treasonous daughter, Princess Coo-Coo.

Peggy and Grizelda choose Mortville, and engage in lesbian prison sex. They become associates of self-hating lesbian wrestler Mole McHenry, who wants a sex change to please her lover, Muffy St. Jacques. After confiscating a lottery ticket from Peggy, Mole wins the Maryland Lottery and uses the money to obtain gender reassignment surgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital. However, Muffy is repulsed by Mole's phalloplasty and insists he cut it off, so Mole gives himself a penectomy.

Most of Mortville's social outcasts—criminals, nudists, and sexual deviants—conspire to overthrow Queen Carlotta, who banishes Coo-Coo after she elopes with a garbage collector named Herbert, whom Queen Carlotta's guards later shoot to death. Coo-Coo hides in Peggy and Grizelda's house with her dead lover. When Peggy betrays Coo-Coo to the Queen's guards, Grizelda fights them and dies when the house collapses on her. Peggy, however, joins the queen in terrorizing her subjects, even infecting them (and Princess Coo-Coo) with rabies.

Eventually, Mortville's denizens, led by Mole, overthrow Queen Carlotta and execute Peggy by shooting a gun up her anus. To celebrate their freedom, the townsfolk roast Carlotta on a spit and serve her, pig-like, on a platter with an apple in her mouth.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/albany/john-waters-desperate-living-1977-on-the-big-screen/200028324721438
- **Event Categories**: sports, nonprofit
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 7

## Ticket Details

- **Ticket URL**: https://ticketing.useast.veezi.com/purchase/96905?siteToken=z6wesvjc3nagdg41gh86xfhj68&utm_source=AllEvents.in&utm_medium=event-discovery-platform&utm_campaign=albany-events

## Event venue details

- **city**: Albany
- **state**: NY
- **country**: United States
- **location**: 290 Delaware Ave, Albany, NY, United States, New York 12209
- **lat**: 42.64286
- **long**: -73.77652
- **full address**: 290 Delaware Ave, Albany, NY, United States, New York 12209

## Event Organizer details

- **affiliate_id**: 2
- **organizer**: Scene One Spectrum 8 Theatres (https://allevents.in/org/scene-one-spectrum-8-theatres/911534)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Wed, 25 Jun, 2025 at 07:30 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** 290 Delaware Ave, Albany, NY, United States, New York 12209
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Scene One Spectrum 8 Theatres
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** sports, nonprofit
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about John Waters' "DESPERATE LIVING" (1977) on the BIG SCREEN! ?
  - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents.

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