AWARD-WINNING GENDER-BENDING FEMINIST COMEDY
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Tickets: Regular $29, Big Ticket $23, Big Ticket Plus $19 & Student $10
This show inspires reflection and conversations around gender, feminism, emotional intelligence, masculinity, consent, addiction, class, education, the geography of tenderness, laughter and what it is to be a man, what it is to be a woman, what it is to be a person, and how to be human.
This show calls for an all-adult night out with your partner and peers!
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CANDICE ROBERTS: Writer and Performer
Candice Roberts is a Canadian Comedy artist and fifth-generation European-Canadian settler based in unceded Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), Səlílwətaɬ(Tsleil- Waututh), and xwməθkwəyəm (Musqueam) territories, also known as Vancouver. Her original works encompass physical theatre, music, and clown to investigate the humor and heartbreak of our social and human conditions. She is a somatic practitioner and an avid researcher of CREATIVITY, and the connections between self-expression, mental health, and community. Candice tours internationally with her award-winning solo show; LARRY, a “daring, provocative and hilarious” gender-bending feminist comedy. She is also the artistic director of CANDY BONES THEATRE which devises and tours innovative, immersive, and original theatre for young audiences. Watch out for IDEAS BOBERT, a ridiculous family comedy in the likes of Charlie Chaplin and OOPSIE, a physical comedy about the ART OF FAILURE!
SONIA NORRIS: Director, Dramaturge, and Clown Coach
Sonia Norris is an LA-based physical theatre director specializing in the development of new work with theatre, circus, clown, mask, and puppetry companies including Rogue Artists Ensemble, Los Angeles (Reckless Sea of the Brain), Handspring Puppet Company, South Africa (Olifantland, Renosterbos), Stratford Shakespeare Festival (Cymbeline), Luminato Festival (Taj), Red Sky Performance (Mistatim), Cirqiniq Arctic Circus (The Three Girls), Common Boots Theatre (Ballad of Weedy Peetstraw), HIFA Festival, Zimbabwe (When You Stand Alone, I Have a Dream!...), LEGacy Circus (Cyborg E.R.I.N.), Banff Centre Indigenous Dance (Transformations), SoCirc Social Circus (Carnival of Life), and Workman Arts (Masks of Madness). Upcoming directing projects include Candice Roberts Theatre’s clown show LARRY for the Montreal Clown Festival, and the bouffon/puppet/video production Extinction Burst, with Winnipeg artist Lisa Walter. Sonia trained in physical theatre at Ecole Jacques Lecoq in France, Ecole Philippe Gaulier in England, and the Dell’Arte School of Physical Theatre in California. She is a graduate of the Playhouse Acting School in Canada and holds an MFA in Directing from York University. Her clown, bouffon, and puppetry research has been published internationally. Currently, she is an Assistant Professor/Head of Acting in the Theatre Department at California State University Northridge.
DEANNA FLEYSHER: Additional Clown Coach
Deanna Fleysher is a comedy artist, teacher, and director devoted to audience inclusion. She created Foreplay, an erotic improv comedy show that ran for a year at the People’s Improv Theater in NY and was featured at the Chicago Improv Festival. She created, produced, and starred in Kill Me Loudly: A Clown Noir and The Kapinski Private Eye Academy at the NY Clown Theatre Festival. She created the Naked Comedy Lab, a workshop for training in interactive/immersive comedy and clown/bouffon. She is the director and co-writer of Red Bastard, the internationally acclaimed bouffon show. Currently, she tours her award-winning solo show BUTT KAPINSKI and teaches Naked Comedy labs in the Pacific Northwest of the U.S. and worldwide.
About Larry
LARRY is complex, fearless and very funny portrait of a small town Canadian dude on a path of self discovery. He wants to prove that he’s worthy of a good woman, that he can quit drinkin’ and even take up “medertation”.
Bold, smart and outrageously funny, It turns out that LARRY’s journey into his own psyche uncovers more than he expected..
Cranbrook, British Columbia- Vancouver-based artist Candice Roberts’ daring and provocative gender-bending show LARRY will play at the Key City Theatre on January 27, 2023.
Picking up from the world premiere and rise of her 2019 international tour for LARRY, award-winning Canadian Clown Artist Candice Roberts once again assumes her alter ego in a comedic piece about one dude’s hilarious attempt at self-improvement. With rock and roll, a little life-couching, and a dip into his own psyche, Larry uncovers a little more femininity than anyone expected.
Roberts claims that Clown School Saved Her Life and uses LARRY to explore her experiences growing up as a female in rural BC, Canada in the 1980s. Culled lovingly from the male archetypes that surrounded her during her upbringing, Larry helps her compassionately examine the limitations of the gender binary, aging as a woman in society, and the complexities of being human.
NYC Encore Series Award 2019/ Colin Thomas’ Best Theatre of 2019/ Artistic Risk Award- Vancouver 2019/ Pick of the Fringe- Vancouver, Edmonton 2019/ Critics Pick- Orlando 2020/ Best in Canada- Play the Fool Film Fest (for Larry’ll Learn You, Episode 4)
“This superior, adult-oriented clowning comedy is far deeper than it first appears. It’s funny, weird and telling — with something important to say”