Clowntown City Limits
Clowntown City Limits is a comedic theatre piece, written and performed by the Los Angeles comedy troupe 2 Headed Dog. The group includes Mark Fite, Jim Turner (comedian), Craig Anton, and Dave 'Gruber' Allen.
Additional material by Joel Madison, Dale Goodson, and Bob Rucker. Music by Andy Paley. Directed by John Ferraro.
Description
Clowntown City Limits brings together a trio of down-and-out clowns living in a home that is not the worst place in the world but is the “worst place adjacent”. Big Bugs, Corky, and Adolph manage to pay a back-handed tribute to the world of clowns while turning it upside down and inside out, revealing the darkness inherent in every black-velvet clown painting that ever hung over a frightened child’s bed. It features Mark Fite, Jim Turner, Dave Gruber Allen, and Craig Anton.
Reception
The LA Weekly described Two Headed Dog's show Clowntown City Limits as "ravishingly brilliant ... as funny and pointless and circuitous as life on the margins",[1] and it was still playing well three years later, described as "hysterically imbecilic repartee" tinged with "a loathing resentment".[2]
References
- ↑ Morris, Steven Leigh (July 13, 2009). "Stage Raw: Clowntown City Limits". LA Weekly. Retrieved 17 November 2015.
- ↑ Morris, Steven Leigh (May 31, 2012). "Years of a clown: Stoneface: the rise and fall and rise of Buster Keaton at Sacred Fools". LA Weekly. Retrieved 17 November 2015.