The King Without a Kingdom • A New Buffoon Play
Presented by Theater Grottesco
Theater Grottesco presents The King Without a Kingdom via Vimeo On Demand.
October 22 through October 25 • Talk-back begins at 6 p.m.
The video will be available at https://vimeo.com/ondemand/thekingwithoutakingdom, and on Theater Grottesco’s website, TheaterGrottesco.org.
Audience members can tune in to the video stream from their own homes and join Grottesco artists for nightly talk-backs via Zoom.
Susie Perkins in The King Without a Kingdom
Originally entitled THE OTHER, postponed last March, this is a companion piece to 2019’s DIFFERENT. Both are improvisations where fearless performers fly without a net held aloft by an invisible structure of physical and vocal ‘prompts’ along with stories they know but have not memorized.
THE OTHER celebrated a family of Buffoons summoned to entertain the King’s Court. Since COVID hit, our medieval buffoons are now contemporary pandemic isolators who have spent a little too much time alone. Each buffoon has filmed themselves in the safety of their own home. Together, they share a fairy tale about the son of a wealthy landlord who dreams of becoming King. Grottesco’s longtime video collaborators at Lightningwood Pictures have edited the 5 versions into the craziest live stream event yet.
Performers are Susan Skeele, Susie Perkins, and Myriah Duda from the DIFFERENT cast, along with Koppany Pusztai and Ali Tallman under the guidance of Grottesco artistic director, John Flax.
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From 2019’s DIFFERENT
“Heavy breathing and beautiful single-note songs somehow transport the audience to the fields of France through some uncanny collective consciousness.” - Charlotte Jusinski, The Santa Fe Reporter
“Theater Grottesco’s ensemble of six women telling a story through movement and sound simply takes your breath away...” - Audience Member
“I’ve spent a lifetime looking for avant-garde work that offers new possibilities for seeing and thinking. Early modern painters and composers did that. So did the 50’s Happenings and the postmodern choreographers. Grottesco is doing it with each performance of DIFFERENT.” - Audience Member
About Theater Grottesco: Founded in Paris in 1983, Theater Grottesco is known internationally for visual and explosive original theater productions. The Grottesco ensemble rekindles interest in live performance by juxtaposing classical and modern theatrical styles with a daring, poetic research of culture and imagination, challenging our predominant paradigm and taking audiences to the brink of emotional wonder and soulful reflection. Theater Grottesco is a 2017 award winner of the National Theater Program.