Fri/Sat
May 4 & 5, 2012
 151 w. 46th St. (bet. 6th/7th), 8th Floor, NYC
a special double-header remounting!
$20 for both, click below!  | |
 Handshake Uppercut
a Victorian Clown Throwdown
@ 7:30pm created & performed by
Jay Dunn & John Leo
“a brilliant piece of theater...will help raise the quality bar of clown-theater.” -maskarts.com
“They made me crème fraîche my panties!” -audience member
watch the trailer!
Two slightly perverted but naively well-intentioned mutes drag each other through life with only each other's mischievous cruelty to keep them warm. With voyeuristic vaudeville bits, and surrealist non sequitors, Jay Dunn and John Leo marry Beckett's existential bleakness, the Marquis de Sade's power-games, and Keaton's comedic sincerity. Both epic and infinitesimal, these gentleman comrades will laugh you out of your seat while they steal it from under you. Created in 2010 for the NY Clown Theatre Festival and developed through a residency and three week run at Dixon Place, Handshake Uppercut is presented at the Tank as part of the New Works Festival. This summer, Handshake Uppercut is headed to the Chicago and Philly Fringes! Help us cover costs by going to our INDIEGOGO PAGE!
**Handshake Uppercut is not for kids | | Peg-ass-us
a Romantic Sex-Ed Burlesque @ 9:30pm $15
created & performed by Sophie Nimmannit & John Leo
WINNER! “Best Comedy!” 2008 SF Fringe Festival
"Heartfelt, honest, NUDITY! WHAT MORE COULD you want?!" audience member watch the trailer! A hilariously penetrating look at queer sex for straight folks, complete with sing-a-longs, how-to’s, romance, puppets and soul-baring striptease. Sophie Nimmannit and John Leo (with direction from Audrey Crabtree & Leslie Strongwater) have crafted perhaps the silliest, most heartfelt romantic comedy about anal sex imaginable! Their beginner's guide, stuffed with toys and songs, goes off-script with a lover's quarrel that tickles qualms, exposes scruples, liberates desire and comes to a climax where everyone gets off! Peg-ass-us has appeared at the Montreal & SF Fringe Festivals, the Brick Theater (Brooklyn), Bard College and as Artists-in-Residence at Dixon Place. Peg-ass-us has toured to Juneau (Alaska), Seattle and Portland and appeared as part of Sex Week at Brown ('11) and Yale Universities ('12). **Peg - ass - us contains nudity and sexually explicit content. | |
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