Not Your Average Slideshow Events
“Dad, Playboy, & Me…
Not Your Average Slideshow”
Comedic storytelling featuring rare Playboy Club photographs, anecdotes from the people who worked there, and the personal journey they inspired.
““Cathartic, creative, & healing””
““A new angle to the Playboy Clubs.
I found it fascinating””
Photography by Annabel Moeller
Guest performances at London Show by Chiquilove
This is Not Your Average Slideshow of glossy Playboy photos. Combined documentary 35mm archived photography, academic research, and A.G. Norton's revealing interviews with Playboy Club employees / patrons; this comedy slideshow takes the audience down an entirely different kind of rabbit hole, subverting the narrative on service and sexuality.
“Mind blowing, eye-opening, beautiful, heart-felt. Just gorgeous! I’m so glad I got to see it!”
-Stacey Clare, author of The Ethical Stripper
Follow our narrators journey through iconic photographers, their personal connection to her family history, & research revealing intersections between Impressionism, the Dada art movement, the lost generation in Paris and their influence on modern day street photography.
oh - and Playboy.
It's wild...
Want to hear what audience have to say click here.
Winner of the Brighton Pride Bursary at the Brighton, UK Fringe Festival 2023.
Upcoming Dates
May 11th Los Angeles, CA
Venue opening party show
May 11th - check venue for times
May 17-25th San Diego, CA
San Diego Fringe Festival
Wildsong Theatre and Arts Collective
Dad, Playboy, & Me…Not Your Average Slideshow (60 min full show)
Friday May 17th at 6 pm
Saturday May 18 at 2:30 pm
Sunday May 19th at 9 pm
Friday May 24th at 7:30 pm
Saturday May 25th at 11:30
May 27th Los Angeles, CA
The Yard Theatre
Dad, Playboy, & Me…Not Your Average Slideshow (60 min full show)
Showtime 7:00 pm
May 3oth, NYC
Projectorfest 2024
Caveat Theatre, NYC
Dad, Playboy, & Me…Not Your Average Slideshow (3o min)
June 14th Dublin, Ireland
Bloomsday festival
Berenice Abbott and the Joyce family portraits slideshow & art storytelling
James Joyce Center Dublin, Ireland
The show consists of the photography, art historical storytelling & the personal connection Berenice Abbott had to both the Joyce family as well as to the Norton family photography collection.
June 15th Dublin, Ireland
Dad, Playboy, & Me…Not Your Average Slideshow (60 minute full show)
The Dot Theatre Dublin, Ireland
showtime 18:30
Follow Not Your Average Slideshow on instagram for more information on shows and collaborations.
Email vivelapin@gmail.com for bookings
check out our guest collaborators from
2024
March 26th
Berenice Abbott & Village Friends
A love letter to the past - storytelling slideshow
Greenwich Village Preservation Society
NYC
March 16th
& March 30th
Under St Marks Theatre
NYC
March 8th & 10th
The Burrow
Naples, FL
January 20th
Caveat Theatre
NYC
2023
December 29th
Eco Evolution
Norwalk, CT
November 17th
Brooklyn Film Camera
NYC
October 8th
Trevi Lounge
Fairfield, CT
October 24th
Sunrise East 56th
NYC
September 21st
Starr Bar
Brooklyn, NY
October 1st
The Slipper Room
NYC
August 2023
Edinburgh Fringe Festival
Just the Tonic at The Mash House Snifter Room
Scotland, UK
August 2023
Camden Fringe Festival
The Water Rats
London, UK
July 8th
Paul Larsen Gallery
Saddle River, NJ
July 23rd
The Slipper Room
Lower East Side, NYC
June 2nd
Eco Evolution
Norwalk, CT
May 2023
Brighton Fringe Festival
Caravansari, Junk Poets & The Bee’s Mouth
Brighton, UK
April 27th
Fontaine’s Cocktail Bar
London, UK
February 25th
Eco Evolution
Norwalk, CT
March 8th
The Ballery Gallery
Berlin, Germany
April 3rd
The Tipsy Bear
Berlin, Germany
March 25th
Statt Lab Artist Collective
Berlin, Germany
March 17th
800A Bar & Cabaret
Berlin, Germany
March 12th
Witches Kitchen
Berlin, Germany
February 18th
The Chelsea Senior Living Community
West Milford, NJ
February 17th
Silvo’s Villa & Martini Bar
Warwick, NY
2022
December 10
Brooklyn Film Camera
Brooklyn, NY
November 24th
Fontaine’s cocktail bar
London, UK
Sept 30th
- Maiden Voyage -
Eco Evolution
Norwalk, Ct
Nov 5
Bushwick Community Darkroom
Brooklyn, NY
Oct 8th
Art Barn Corridor
Vernon, NY