Clowning Performance
(each is approximately 10 minutes in length)
The Beginning
We see Pox create the world and give birth to Vendetta in this tale about the birth of emotional bondage and ambivalence. view youtube clip
The Teddy Bears' Picnic -
Pox and Vendetta as two little girls, depict the origins of aggression and power.
photo: Paul Orenstein |
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Lovestuck - explores the intensely ambivalent relationship between decline and dependence, love and revulsion in this vignette about an aging mother and her middle aged daughter trapped in suffocating obligation.
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Mirror, Mirror off the Wall -
Vendetta's vanity and wish for plastic surgery result in her mutilation at the hands of her Fairy Godmother, Pox.
You Slay Me -
Pox tries to get Vendetta into the coffin while Vendetta denies that death has come for her. Link to youtube
From Birth to Death it's Clown Burlesque -
A burlesque strip to the death, played to 1940s classic striptease music. After all, there's nothing sexier than watching someone peel off a tumour.
Déjà Vu All Over Again -
shows us how we play through the same stories over and over until we recognize and decide to do them differently, thus ending the repetitive cycle of suffering.
