Barrymore Recommended HE WHO GETS SLAPPED

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.

CAST
HE: Ross Beschler
CONSUELO: Isabella Fehlandt
COUNT MANCINI: Brian McCann 
XENA: Annette Kaplafka 
PAPA BRIQUET: Bob Weick
JACKSON / STRANGER: Terry Brennan 
BEZANO: Ben Grinberg  
WALLY / USHER: Josh Totora 
PAULIE / USHER: Andalyn Young 
BARON REGNARD: Nathan Foley

PRODUCTION TEAM
Philadelphia School of Circus Art Consultant: Shana Kennedy
Circus Art / Movement Choreographer: Terry Brennan
Music Director: Josh Totora
Set Design: Matt Campbell
Lighting Design: Robert Thorpe
Costume Design: Katherine Fritz
Makeup Consultant: Jessica DalCanton
Assistant Director: Tori Mittelman
Stage Manager: Sam Wend
Production Manager: Lauren Tracy 
Props: Flora Vassar

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

PHOTO GALLERY:

All images credit Ashley LaBonde and Wide Eyed Studios.