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69 Moments of Life
Actor, You're Killing Me
Air Tight Security
Almost True Adventures ...
Amazing Improvised Musical
Animal Farm
Ballerina on a Horse
Beautiful Man
Berserker
Caffe di Amore or ...
Check the Box
Clearing Hedges
Corned Beef
Countless
Crime & Variations
Death Blow II: ...
Demon Pope
Diagnosis: Jew Pain ...
Disco Prophecies
Ethan's Gift
Far From Springer
Fixed Boundry
Forty Love
Got Water
I Can't Believe They're Not Oriental!
Idiot Machine: ...
In Cahoots
John Muir: Watch, Pray, Fight
Late Night Talk Show
Ludlow and Canal
Magic at the Fringe
Man 1, Bank 0
Marx in Soho
Mixed Signal
Mother: A Modern Buddhist ...
Naked Inqisition
nEO - surrealists present: ...
Neon's Crazy Blue
Nharcolepsy
Original Action Pack
Park - N - Ride
Passages
Sandwich
Scabaret!
Searching for God in Kerala
Seventh Game of the World Series
Shadow Kissers
Strobe Vision
This World is Not My Home
Total Improvisation - ...
Train Stories
Tripping on the Equator ...
Twinspeak
Play: In Cahoots
Reviewer: John Rackham
Reviewer Email: johnrackham@roguesyarn.com
Rating: 5 Stars
Hi..er..ok..I'd like to say...well...I think these three were...Hi...er..ok...I'd
like to say...well..I think...
Honestly, I loved this show. There was no clown fear induced at all. Hilarious physical and verbal comedy, with touching moments, driven by brilliant character acting. A great pleasure to watch.
One moment almost made me cry too - is that strange?
Play: In Cahoots
Reviewer: Dick Karp
Reviewer Email: dick@catapult.com
Rating: 4 Stars
A pleasurble interlude from three talented clowns who gave us 50 minutes
of silliness. Don't worry about the deep analysis on the back of the program,
just prepare to be entertained. Maybe it isn't anything you'll remember
years later, but you'll enjoy the experience while it's underway.
Play: In Cahoots
Reviewer: Eric Klein
Reviewer Email: futonyessir@yahoo.com
Rating: 5 Stars
CLOWNS!
I enjoyed this from the very start. Not for audiences that dont like being made to feel awkward, because they do that. THen they make funny.
I saw Wed nights performance, which was amazing. The audience was engaged and excited and there were many laughs. Then I came back THurs and it was hotter and there were fewer people and less laughs. I saw it twice and I laughed both times. CLOWNS!
Play: In Cahoots
Reviewer: Carl Thelin
Reviewer Email: parchedcamel@yahoo.com
Rating: 5 Stars
HIGH-LARIOUS. Never in my life would I have expected apple cake (whatever
that is) to be the catalyst for such a wild free range arguement that plumbs
the depths of human existance while inducing such gut-wrenching laughter
and invoking disturbing nightmares from your (well, at least my) youth.
Oh, and there's Jello, too!
Play: In Cahoots
Reviewer: Cassidy
Reviewer Email: cassidybrown@hotmail.com
Rating: 5 Stars
So Wonderful, these guys do it right. Clowning can be either too childish
or too edgy and chaotic. They find just the right balance, playing occasionally
adult jokes with a childlike innocence. So simple, yet downright touching
and beautiful. I agree with the last reviewer, I want to go to Alaska now
just so I can hang out with them!
Play: In Cahoots
Reviewer: jes'fine
Reviewer Email: jes_fine@hotmail.com
Rating: 5 Stars
I went back to see this show a second time , hence the second review. It
was just as funny , if not more so, and I imagine it would even hold up
to a third viewing. There are some shows that actually get even better after
you've left the theatre and you find yourself laughing at bits that suddenly
come back to you. This is one of those special shows. It's as if there's
something else going on at a deeper level that you're not aware of and for
no rational , explainable reason you find yourself just happy to be alive.
And Emily is easily my favorite "character" of the entire Fringe.
Thanks to all of you. I really , really , really , reallllllllly, enjoyed
your show. No ,really.
Play: In Cahoots
Reviewer: Alex
Reviewer Email:
Rating: 5 Stars
Well, 4.5 stars actually. A well executed and funny clown show. The strongest
part of the show is the characterizations of the cast (especially the girl).
These are clowns you can empathize with as well as laugh at. The weak parts
are the slapstick comedy - the physicality does not have the precision of
the great clowns Hoyle and Irwin, and the jokes are somewhat repetitive
in nature. A great future for these guys, though, is in store, I'm sure
Play: In Cahoots
Reviewer: noah
Reviewer Email: noah@ripetreats.com
Rating: 5 Stars
So now I want to move to Alaska.
DON'T MISS THIS NUGGET. The chemistry and commitment these stellar performers
have to their characters is truly inspiring. They are charming, adorable,
and impossible to take your eyes off of. If you're not into smiling, see
something else.
Play: In Cahoots
Reviewer: Derek Mutch
Reviewer Email:
Rating: 5 Stars
Delightful. Three clowns complete with red noses - but this is no circus
- it's more like watching children playing silly games. And they try to
get you to play with them, but you're having too good a time watching them,
you can't help smiling, you burst out laughing at every other thing they
do.
No other show radiates such good will, good humor and good fun. Emily is
lovable, John is audacious, and Roblin has surprises in his pants. They
flirt with doing nothing at all, and then the nothingness devolves into
a symphony of silliness.
This show is an antidote to everything in the world that gets you down or
makes you tense - it doesn't avoid those things - it bounds into them and
gives them a wedgie.
You can find info and photos at www.roblingray.net/show/cahoots.htm and
there's a nice photo with the article about the fringe at www.sfgate.com,
in the entertainment section.
I swear, I'm not connected to the show, except that I'm a fan and I want
people to enjoy this delightful experience.
Play: In Cahoots!
Reviewer: Vince Vitale
Reviewer Email: WorldGazer@aol.com
Rating: 5 Stars
Wild Rumpus Clown Theatre is a traditional clown company from Juneau, Alaska.
You may remember Roblin Gray Davis (not related) from the mesmerizing “Imbecillus”
at the Fringe two years ago. Three clowns on a stage (and sometimes off):
one mute and simple, one post-atomically innocent, one in the style of W.C.Fields.
This tender, elegant performance is a clear temporary antidote to the real
tragi-comedy we often see on the national and international fronts these
days. It says in their handout, “In examining the absurdity of life,
the cruelty of humans, . . . the end brings only the knowledge that we have
each other, for better or for worse. So why not for the better?” Who
couldn’t love a performance coming from that space?