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He Who Gets Slappedby Leonid Andreyev
Adapted by Walter Wykes Directed by Damon Bonetti March 30-April 16, 2016 at Broad Street Ministry Barrymore Recommended In a flea-bitten French circus, a cast of clowns, trapeze artists, lion-tamers and ringmasters perform their routines under a striped awning and glowing lights. When a new clown arrives, his cheerful makeup conceals a dark secret from his past. In this partnership with the Philadelphia School of Circus Arts, our home space at Broad Street Ministry will transform into the underbelly of the Big Top, where no one is laughing harder than the saddest clown of them all.
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Reviews & Press
"PAC has become an adventurous voice in Philadelphia, producing work from eras most theaters fear and titles even the savviest theatergoers might not recognize. What they add to the landscape is curious, complex work that challenges the status quo and relieves the usual “Classics” fatigue." - Megan Diehl, DC Metro Theatre Arts.com
“One of the big things about the show is that everyone is in love with the thing they can’t have, and nothing can take its place; not material wealth, not art, not the circus itself,” he says. “The only thing that can salve the wound is the thing that they want, and they just can’t get it.” - Dan Majka, CBS News
“One of the big things about the show is that everyone is in love with the thing they can’t have, and nothing can take its place; not material wealth, not art, not the circus itself,” he says. “The only thing that can salve the wound is the thing that they want, and they just can’t get it.” - Dan Majka, CBS News
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