duration of the performance: 40 min
A strange creature invites you to make light of her troubles. She weeps in tune, craving your laughter, your applause, and most of all your pity. Her voice trembles as she navigates various moods — she is hungry to be understood, but thrives on her own alienation. Her off-kilter ensemble echoes her lament.
As the music unravels, so does the logic of this world. What emerges is a sonic theatre-of-the-absurd.
This work uses voice, sound, text and physicality to explore the performativity of sadness, catharsis, and alienation. With equal doses satire, whimsy and sincerity, the clown emerges as an extreme poetic response to the pain of living: a departure from the normal attitude to life.