The Tories Just Don't Understand Art
Audiences at the Government-funded Chapter arts centre in Canton, Cardiff, see Miss Takahashi arrive on stage in high heels and a smart black business suit.
For the next three hours, they watch her drink bottle after bottle, periodically lurching towards her beam and seeing how much of it she can negotiate without falling off.
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David Davies, a Tory member of the Welsh Assembly, said: “If anyone is daft enough to want to see a young woman getting plastered and tottering around in high heels, they can do it in just about every city centre most nights of the week. The show is probably the biggest waste of money in the world. The worrying thing is people are deciding to hand out taxpayers’ money like this when they are sober.”
(Via Scrivner. Private to Scrivner: You’ll get farther with your grant if you promise not to wear the heels. I hope.)
Never wore the heels yet. At least, not when sober enough to remember.
See!? I knew you were a true artist!