"Sterilize"
The old saying has it that cleanliness is next to godliness. But biologists now point out that such a state can also lead to extinction. A society too bacterially clean is more vulnerable to a number of diseases, and that's without factoring in the more sinister forms of cleansing—ethnic, racial, social and economic—the world has witnessed in recent years. The Performance Collective, an edgy group of Chapel Hill stage artists and musicians, enact their latest, a 40-minute musical inquiry into the dark and dirty side of squeaky clean, at the Artery tonight at 6 p.m. and tomorrow at 8 p.m., before a Saturday show at Pinhook in Durham at 7 p.m. The show is pay what you can. Wash your hands. —Byron Woods