NOT CLOWN
by Steve Moore and Carlos Treviño
directed by Carlos Treviño
Soho Rep, 2006
Physical Plant Theater, 2004
In a time when clowns are tortured and circuses banned, a renegade troupe enacts the story of a girl who longs for their outlawed life — even as her father commits atrocities on the State’s behalf. Limbs rebel against the body. The cram car bolts for the border. And a round, red nose is a dark souvenir.
Lee Eddy, Rommel Sulit, Elizabeth Doss, Mark Stewart, Josh Meyer
Lee Eddy as Agnes, Josh Meyer as Alfred
Elizabeth Doss as Linda
Lee Eddy, Rommel Sulit, Elizabeth Doss, Mark Stewart, Josh Meyer
"It's typical of the unusual tone of this show that while the clowning scenes are sometimes horrific, the plot about the persecution of a discriminated class, which the clowns play quite melodramatically, is hilarious."
"...uniquely weird and vibrant..."
"...painful and gorgeous and really, really funny."