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 | DETRITUSThis bouffon show was developed in Collaboration with The Combustables, Ten Directions, director, and the performers. Workshopped and performed in 2009. DETRITUSSpecial thanks to Giovanni Fusetti whose workshop began the process.
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Five creatures from the underworld bring back to the surface what you thought you’d disposed of forever. Inspired by New York’s trash, these grotesques and bouffons will keep you laughing, even as the terrifying facts about waste spill into your laps. |
| Photo by alex Franck |
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| Conceived & developed by the cast and director. |
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| Lynn Berg |
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| Audrey Crabtree |
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| Jeff Seal |
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| Anne Sorce |
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| Liza Zapol |
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| Directed by: Larissa Lury |
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| Assistant Director: Jill Beckman |
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| Bouffon Consultant: Eric Davis |
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| Music: Dave Edson |
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| Produced by The Combustables |
Photo credit by Molly Mull |
| In Association with Ten Directions |
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| Special thanks to Giovanni Fusetti, whose workshop on Clown, bouffon and grotesque jump started the process. |
This collaborative project involved a lot of fascinating and heartbreaking research on our society, it's excess and waste and the people that are left behind. Below are some of the things that have stuck in my mind. |
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The Film 'Dark Days' (see the trailer) |
| Artists of Tomorrow Festival-NYC |
Garbage Land the secret trail of trash. |
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The potential hoax The Mole People |
| NY Downtown Clown Cabaret -an excerpt |
Trips to the salvage yard, the composting center, and |
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Also look here for greener ways to dispose of items. |
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| DETRITUS is made possible in part with the public funds from the Manhattan Community Arts Fund, supported by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and administered by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. |
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 | Bouffon Glass MenajoreeThis award winning interactive play had runs in Brooklyn, NYC, Minnesota, the Catskills and Dublin Ireland. We hoping to remount it summer 2011. Let us know if we should head your way. Bouffon Glass Menajoree
| A PARODY OF A BELOVED AMERICAN CLASSIC |
“Hilarious…Don’t Miss” – TimeOut NY |
| A Ten Directions Production |
“Hilarious Madness” - Show Showdown
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| Written by the performers Lynn Berg, Audrey Crabtree, and Aimee German with director Eric Davis. |
“Genius” - CultureBot
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Gentlemen callers beware: The Wingfields plume their nest with broken glass, twisted morals, and perverted minds. Each night a new audience member will get to play the role of Jim, the gentlemen caller. Tom, Amanda and Laura claim no responsibility for hurt feelings or offended sentiments. These deformed anti-clowns subversively take the piss out of everyone and everything. Why would anyone do this to an American Masterpiece!?!
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“Delicious!” - NYTheatre.com
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| "The hilarious Audrey Crabtree plays Laura indelibly. It will be a long time (read: NEVER) before I will be able to enjoy this great American play without being reminded of the battered, bruised, out-of-her-mind-psychotic Laura." -NYTheater.com |
"Bouffon Glass Menajoree is a black mass at the altar of a sacred American theater text" -TimeOut NY |
WINNERS OF
Outstanding Production of a Play, 2007
Also nominated for:
Outstanding Original Short Script
Outstanding Ensemble
Outstanding Director
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| "Crabtree’s bitchy, improvised outbursts are not only hilarious, but finally empower Laura after 60 years of onstage rejection." — Garrett Eisler, TimeOut NY |
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"Perfect theatrical storm... extremely funny breaking up the audience and in effect creating a new genre of American comedic condescension."
- Larry Litt
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| “Nothing short of brilliant!” - MNArtists.org |
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PAST PERFORMANCES |
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*Dublin International Fringe Festival -Sponsored Performance |
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*Bedlam Theater, Minneapolis, MN |
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*NY Clown Theatre Festival, 2006 |
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*Brick Theater, INC extension |
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*NY Clown Theatre Festival 2005 |
| "This is a company that truly takes risks." -NY Theater.com |
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