Thanks to everybody at FringeNYC
and HERE Arts Center for all the kindness and hospitality!
The Hyperbolist is a
grandiloquent farce of tiny proportion about one desperate human's
search
for love in a world that
offers mostly rakes to step on. In what the Chicago Tribune
called, "an archly conceived puppet show,"
Joe Mazza uses a gaggle
of puppets, film, and interactive live performance to explore our
collective definition of love.
The show is Leo
Buscaglia meets David Lynch. It's the Brothers Quay-- only
live. There's flea circus brutality, a puppet crucifixion,
and an assignment at the
end to run into the streets to smile at strangers. It's a fun
and exhausting introduction into Joe Mazza's
phantasmagorically
raucous world.
Greg Allen, Founding
Director of The Neo-Futurists and creator of Too Much Light Makes
the Baby Go Blind
called the show,
"Beautiful and funny and tragic all simultaneously. He had my
eyes welling up within three minutes of the start; right after I
chuckled."
Written and
performed by Joe Mazza. Puppets, sets, and films also by Joe
Mazza.
Directed by Dan
Kerr-Hobert, Joe Mazza, and Susan Ask
August 2010
SAT 14 @ 2:30 -- SUN 15 @ 8:30 -- FRI 20 @
8:45 -- SUN 22 @ 9:45 -- THUR 26 @ 6 -- FRI 27 @ 7
VENUE #18: HERE Dorothy B. Williams
Theater
145 6th Ave, New York, NY
Running Time: 60 minutes Tickets:
$15-$18
very old news...
+ Phantasmagoric--
I was just invited to apply for a Jim Henson
Grant! The clay is moist, the sketches are on the
board,
and my 1961 Singer
Rocketeer is just back from the garage.
+ Come and check
out five of my new puppets in,
"The Dolls of J" show at the Eyeporium
Gallery1543
N Milwaukee.
The opening is October 16 7pm-10. The show runs until
November 7.
+
November 7, I'll be doing a short piece, Fou-ha-ha!, at a benefit
for the typhoon vittims of the Philippines, KAPWA, at The Rizal
Center--
along with egregiously talented folks like Taylor Bibat and Alex
Balestrieri. More details on the
way.
+ I'll be
performing a new piece, Egad! My Lips Are
Moving!, at The Solarium-- a fantastic and intimate venue for
new
and
edgy work-- on November 14.
+ Some of my short
puppet films will be featured in the screening of "Short Sighted"
which is part of the Heartland Exhibition
at The
Smart Museum, University of Chicago, on December 3rd. Admission
is free and there will be live music-- and food!
+ In
Absurdum-- my new solo-show-- went up at the Building Stage's
Summer Series for three weeks, August,
2009.
Thanks
to all who joined us and also to my special
guests-- Allison Daniel and her One Flea
Circus.
+ The Walls (Jeff Nominated)
Come
and see-- I created the puppets and choreographed the puppet
sequences for