Mary Woronov, Jayne County and Patti Smith, followed by a small role in the Paul Morrisey / Andy Warhol film, Women in Revolt. In 1970, Arcade was featured in her first interview in Rags Magazine, an alternative fashion magazine. Time in Europe At age 20, Arcade left New York for Europe, where she lived for a decade. In 1971, Arcade turned down a role in the London production of Andy Warhol's play Pork, choosing instead to join Vaccaro and The Playhouse of the Ridiculous in Amsterdam. After eight months in Amsterdam, she moved to the island of Formentera in Spain's Balearic Islands. She has described her time in Europe as fodder for a "...great and scandalous memoir...drinking with sailors as a bargirl, starting a school for the children of drug smugglers, befriending and being befriended by Robert Graves at the end of his life... well, it goes on." Return to New York Arcade returned to New York City in 1981 to appear in The Playhouse of The Ridiculous's remounting of their 1970 hit Night Club by Kenneth Bernard for LaMama's 20th anniversary at Ellen Stewart's request. She worked with underground theatre artists, including Jack Smith, Charles Ludlam, and the founder of The Cockettes and Angels of Light, Hibiscus, and in the spring of 1982 improvised her first performance piece in the latter's show Tinsel Town Tirade at Theater for The New City, receiving her first writer's credit. In February 1985, Arcade presented her first full-length evening of original improvised work, While You Were Out, at the Poetry Project, and then presented it at Performance Space 122 in June later that same year. While You Were Out then moved to University of The Streets in November 1985 and continued to run for an additional four months. Penny Arcade was featured in 1988 Vogue Magazine'''s "People Are Talking About" issue, the first mention of performance art in a national fashion magazine. In the late 1980s, she created a character named Margo Howard-Howard, a 50-year-old drag queen with a scandalous past, for her performances. The New York Times refers to the character as "patently unbelievable", but in a later article acknowledges that her monologue was "based on real Lower East Side residents." Howard-Howard received an obituary in The Village Voice. Premiering in 1990 at Performance Space 122,and running off broadway at The Village Gate 1992-1993 Arcade began touring internationally in 1993 with her