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Created by:
Jacob Willis & Kendelle Parks
Produced by Palous Theatre with support from Common Boots Theatre
Onstage May 8th - 19th, 2024
The Theatre Centre Incubator
In a comedic collision of Chekhovian drama and Clown Chaos, INSERT CLOWN HERE follows a troupe of actors in a fully rehearsed, 19th-century melodrama that is upended when the lead actor goes missing and is replaced by a completely unrehearsed Clown. While the Clown attempts to improvise lines and blocking from a script they haven’t read, the remaining cast will try to keep the story on track, resulting in a comedy-of-errors newly created every performance. What could go wrong? Only everything.
Filled with “glorious, farcical mischief” (Istvan Dugalin) and “ridiculous fun” (Steel City Girl Reviews), prepare for the unprepared, as you witness performers embrace the actor’s nightmare and laugh at their spectacular failure.
INSERT CLOWN HERE “will leave audience members with their jaws dropped.”
– Beyond James
Advisory Warning: Cartoonish Violence, Smoke/Fog, Improv
Read the press release here
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY: Jacob Willis & Kendelle Parks
PRODUCTION DESIGN: Irene Ly
ASSISTANT PRODUCTION DESIGN: Alyssa Duhaney
LIGHTING DESIGN: Mathilda Kane
SOUND DESIGN: Christopher-Elizabeth
HEAD OF CARPENTRY: Anthony Allan
PRODUCTION & STAGE MANAGER: Annasofie Jakobsen
ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER: Kiera Doerksen Smith
CAST:
SON: Kole Durnford
DAUGHTER: Ella Berger
MOTHER: Margot Greve
GRANDFATHER: Atlin Hofer
ALEXIS/BUTLER: Nicole Kleiman
CLOWNS:
Augusta Monet, Rob Feetham, Adam Paolozza, Courtenay Stevens, Lisa Marie DiLiberto, Anand Rajaram, Morgan Joy, Adam Lazarus, Jane Luk, Isaac Kessler, Kiana Woo, Kendall Savage
Previous Iterations
Fringe Tour 2023
Presented at the Toronto, Hamilton, Calgary, and Edmonton Fringe Festivals from July - August 2023.
Workshop 2022
Presented as part of the Terra Firma Festival at the Theatre Centre in May 2022.