Paper Wing Theater has invited The Erotic Eclectic to bring its production of The Typewriter Underground to Monterey for a one-night performance on Saturday, June 30 at 7:30pm. Experience a night of immersive theater and literary performance that plunges its audience into the lives of a circle of renegades who have abandoned the Internet for the thrilling physicality and sensual allure of hot type. Tickets are $25 each.

Janice Blaze Rocke’s riveting production thrusts us into the world of The Typewriter Underground and the lives of its Bohemian characters, as they seek safety from the status quo police, charmingly portrayed by the Carmel Delights Dance Company in Keystone Cops attire, even as they seduce their pursuers into the life of freedom and analogue expression they have fought so hard to achieve.

Drawn from a collection of verse and presented as discovered fragments by Santa Cruz poet, Marc Zegans, The Typewriter Underground gathers a community of actors, musicians, dancers, and experimental filmmakers to conjure (with the aid of brilliant psychedelic lighting designer Nelson Basden) the denizens and stories of this subterranean Bohemia living right under our noses, and offers it as metaphor for the struggle to maintain the autonomy, originality, individuality, and democratic freedoms so dangerously threatened today.

This production was initially presents on June 18 Henry Miller Library’s outdoor theater in Big Sur.