The Month Long Ham Festival

Dance & Physical Theatre · the nonsemble · Ages 18+ · United States of America

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Review by EDIE DARLING

June 05, 2023 certified reviewer
tagged as: silly · Postmodern · pomo · fluxus · highart · lowart · weird · absurd · Chaos · clown

What I liked

The casual queerness is a super cool aspect. They don’t make a thing of it. it’s just a thing.

What I didn't like

I’ve always wanted fewer acts!

My overall impression

Quick moving, absurd, experimental, and dumb in a good way. This troupe collaborates seamlessly and joyfully to make acts about nothing that turn into … everything? Part clown/part dance/a lot of nonsense. I’ve seen them a bunch, and I always find myself thinking about them a few days, even a few weeks later, a bit disarmed. They’re a little unnerving that way.

There’s a lot of audience participation, even instigation. We’re part of the show. And it’s, like, casually queer. Which is nice.

I recommend this to get your heart and your head shaken up and to watch artists perform human-ness as if they were really skillful children. That’s the best way I can describe it.

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