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World Premiere Clown Theatre Event
Posted March 21, 2007
Note: Posted as received.
Six Figures Theatre Company is proud to present the World Premiere of
Kendall Cornell's Soon-To-Be-World Famous Women's Clown Troupe in
NOT JUST FOR SHOCK VALUE: A FEMMES-CLOWNS ASSEMBLAGE
April 7 - 28 at the West End Theatre
March 6, 2007) Not Just for Shock Value: A Femmes-Clowns Assemblage is an
astounding, all-women clown spectacle created and directed by clown virtuoso
Kendall Cornell that will receive its world premiere April 7 - 28 at the
West End Theatre, 263 W. 86th St.
Not Just For Shock Value is the next wave in circus: all the acts are
clowns, and all the clowns are women. Akin to the likes of Lucille Ball,
Carol Burnett and Giulietta Masina, the nine member troupe seamlessly
unrolls an "assemblage": a humorous series of visual vignettes, short
sketches and madcap dance numbers. It resides in the realm of the modern
clown movement, i.e. no big shoes or baggy pants, and zig-zags between broad
humor and the darkly satirical.
Kendall Cornell's Soon-To-Be-World-Famous Women's Clown Troupe trained with
Ms. Cornell, and clowned under her direction on assorted projects, including
an event commissioned by Cirque du Soleil for the NYC opening of Corteo.
Kendall Cornell has also toured her own dynamic solo clown pieces, such as
Pink Salome, The Maneater, Glamourpuss, and P.S. de la Resistance at La
MaMa, The Brick's NY Clown Theatre Festival, Chicago's City of Fools
Festival, Six Figures' Artists of Tomorrow Festival, and elsewhere in NYC
and abroad. Ms. Cornell has worked extensively with David Shiner (Fool
Moon, Cirque du Soleil) in directing the U.S. version of the circus-theatre
spectacle, Pomp, Duck & Circumstance.
Not Just for Shock Value previews Sat, Apr 7 at 7:30pm and Sun Apr 8 at
3pm. It opens Thu Apr 12 at 7:30 and continues Sat Apr 14 at 7:30, Sun Apr
15 at 3, Wed Apr 18 at 7:30, Sat Apr 21 at 4 and 10, Sun Apr 22 at 3, Thu
Apr 26 at 7:30, and Sat Apr 28 at 3 and 7:30.
All performances are $20 (except for pay-what-you-can previews April 7 and
8) and take place at The West End Theatre, 263 West 86th Street (between
Broadway and West End Avenue - 1 train to 86th Street, ½ block west).
Tickets go on sale at the box office one hour before showtimes, or may be
purchased in advance via Smarttix -- (212) 868-4444 or www.smarttix.com.
Direct link: http://www.smarttix.com/show.aspx?showCode=NOT5
The Not Just for Shock Value performers include Melinda Ferraraccio, Kathie
Horejsi, Emily James, Ishah Janssen-Faith, Mona Le Roy, Judi Lewis Ockler,
Julie Plumettaz, Maria Smushkovich and Ginny Venk.
Six Figures Theatre Company, now in its 14th season, is dedicated to
providing opportunities for women theater artists and developing quality
theatrical work by women and other underrepresented artists. Six Figures'
spring 2007 season also includes Flashback, a new verbatim theatre piece by
Penny Coleman, Elana Michelson, and Patricia Lee Stotter, and Ding-Dang in
Space!, a postmodern country comedy cabaret.
www.notjustforshockvalue.com
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