Up Your Ass (play)

Up Your Ass, or, From the Cradle to the Boat, or, The Big Suck, or, Up from the Slime is a radical feminist play written in 1965 by Valerie Solanas.

According to writer James Martin Harding, the play is "based on a plot about a woman who 'is a man-hating hustler and panhandler' and who ... ends up killing a man."

Bongi Perez, a lesbian prostitute, stands on a sidewalk shouting rude and forward come-ons to passing women, all of whom rebuff her.

A young woman named Ginger approaches Bongi, asking if she has seen a lost turd, which she plans to serve at a dinner with two male friends, stating that men appreciate women who know how to "eat shit."

Bongi claims that all relationships between men and women are inherently transactional and sexual and that her career as a sex worker is more honest than Ginger and Russell's idealistic goal of equality.

A single spotlight illuminates a schoolteacher, who delivers a speech to an invisible audience of women who have come to learn "basic fucking," which the teacher insists is the foundation and primary function of marriage.

The show was produced by StageFemmes, a student-led theater organization, directed by Ruby Rosenfeld, and starred Chiara Rothenberg as Bongi Perez.