MANIFESTO!
October 27, 2009
Three clowns, two visionaries, and a noise maker walk into a bar. THIS IS NOT A JOKE! Is it?
Fresh from sold out shows at the Capital Fringe Festival and the NY Clown Theatre Festival…
The DC City Paper says “These merry pranksters get it!…glorious nuggets of nonsense…a delightful romp through the surreal…an extra-sensory extravaganza…it is belly-laugh humor”. The Washington Post called it “…an ingeniously oddball deconstruction…brash…seductive…Futurism and dadaism pulsed with revolutionary zeal”
The setting is a surreal Cabaret ReVoltAire. It is war time. The guests are visionaries. Everyone has something to say. It all becomes part of the play. Beware of Forgeries! Text is from ACTUAL Manifestos. MANIFESTO! excites everything!
DC Theatre Scene Review by Carrie Klewin
“If you are looking for an hour of whimsical delight, this café, created by surrealists and run by clowns, is the place to be. Don’t know anything about Dada, Futurism or Surrealism? It doesn’t matter. If you’ve ever had the urge to stand on your head to see the world from a new perspective, you will enjoy this merry dazzle.
Of course, if you do appreciate any of the above named artistic movements, all the better… a text created from fragments of Futurist, Dada, Communist and Capitalist manifestos weaves political propaganda into an imaginative romp. Manifesto! is set in a café that evidently throws a riotous party every night. Cabaret Re-Voltaire, housed in the café, features three clowns who frolic in intellectual banter, apparently to inspire revolution. Along the way, those same clowns tightrope with death, various means of destruction, and magical acts, accompanied by a very talented Foley artist with impeccably hilarious timing. The effect is a kind of hypnotic Dada séance. And the mood is so infectious you will be laughing and applauding without quite understanding why. But isn’t that the point?
Raising awareness and understanding of Dada? It’s possible… More importantly, it’s just an absurdly good time.”
