'Ruff' Is a Freewheeling Cabaret of Confessions
It’s not easy for Peggy Shaw to ask for help. As the nation’s reigning queer feminist performance artist since 1980, when she founded the company Split Britches with Lois Weaver and Deb Margolin, Shaw has modeled how to sail through radically changing political and social norms with confidence and, in her word, “swagger.” But in “Ruff,” Shaw’s latest solo work, created under …