Feminist performers wearing gorilla masks and wigs threw bananas and bread at a full house Thursday night.

The Guerrilla Girls on Tour, a traveling group of feminists who use humor to teach people about feminism, came to Paul Robeson Cultural Center's Heritage Hall and performed "Feminists are Funny!"

Members of the group wear gorilla masks and take on the names of dead female artists to protect their true identities. The two performers in Thursday night's show took the names of Julia Child and Aphra Behn.

A slide show of the women in their masks at various locales around the world played as attendees filed in. The show opened with a routine announcement to turn off all cell phones that quickly became humorous, saying that the Guerrilla Girls would pause for hot flashes, menstrual cramps and contractions that are two minutes apart.

When the show began, two women ran onto the stage, wearing bras and control tops over their clothing and dancing like King Kong. They then tore off the bras while making loud monkey sounds, eventually throwing the bananas at the audience.

They introduced themselves as Child and Behn, giving a mini-biography for each woman and explaining why they wear the masks and use alternative names.

"I think it's pathetic that we have to dress up like gorillas and don fake masks to get attention," Child said.

During the performance, feminist topics were pulled out of a hat by the women and then discussed. They began with "memories," which involved the performers showing pictures of the Guerrilla Girls at places around the world and with people from around the world, including a doctored photograph of them drinking beer with the Pope.

The women asked the audience members if they considered themselves feminists. Both men and women alike raised their hands, proving the women's point that feminists come in all shapes, sizes and genders.

Next, the performers read letters they had received over the years. Some letters complimented them; others were threatening. One was a letter from a boy who apologized for a fellow student who threatened to kill them.

The performance took a more serious note during a discussion on rape. There was no laughter from the audience as the women displayed images of a marriage scene, a little girl holding someone's hand and a man's hand on a woman's thigh, all with the words "this is not an invitation to rape me" stamped across them.

However, the moment didn't last long, as the women then put on President Barack Obama and Vice-president Joe Biden masks and blazers and danced to "Saturday Night Fever," ending it with a kiss.

They also provided statistics about Obama's achievements for women, such as recently signing an act that now protects women from pay discrimination.

The women also graded Pennsylvania and gave the state an F on its "reproductive rights report card" because 78 percent of communities in the state have no abortion providers, they said. They also informed the audience that only seven states guarantee a woman's right to birth control; pharmaceutical employees in the other states are allowed to refuse a prescription because of religious beliefs, they said.

The performance ended with a skit about a woman who wanted to produce a play, but the theater owner only produced white men's plays. Penn State's own Serenity Ireland played the female playwright.

"They're hilarious. I love it," said Ireland (freshman-theatre). "I might be a Guerrilla Girl in the summer."