Illustration by Matty Newton
World Premiere at TBA:22!
Co-produced by RISK/REWARD
September 15 & 16 at 6 PM | September 17 & 18 at 2 PM
Tickets via pica.org
DESCRIPTION
In this sequel to the smash hit Clown Down: Failed to Mount (2019), Clown Down 2: Clown Out of Water finds Portland’s premier drag clown, Carla Rossi, trapped on a rock in the middle of the ocean while the sea level rises from melting ice caps. Alone with a seagull afflicted with IBS, Carla encounters the world’s last surviving polar bear, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a death metal moon, and Liberace and Liza Minnelli (David Saffert and Jillian Snow Harris) in this multimedia drag farce that utilizes puppetry by Matthew Leavitt, interactive video, death metal by Jacob Summers, and kinetic sculpture by David Eckard—all as Carla navigates climate disaster and the terror and joy of living on an increasingly distressed planet.
SPONSORS
Clown Down 2: Clown Out of Water is a National Performance Network (NPN) Creation & Development Fund project co-commissioned by PICA in partnership with the Western Arts Alliance's Advancing Indigenous Performance Program (AIP), Bunnell Street Arts Center, and the Bodecker Foundation. Developed as part of the Indigenous Residency Series (IRS) managed and supported by the Western Arts Alliance’s Advancing Indigenous Performance (AIP) program, led by Ed Bourgeois, with support from the National Performance Network (NPN), James F. and Marion L. Miller Foundation and Regional Arts & Culture Council (RACC). Additional project support by Maui Arts & Cultural Center, Risk/Reward, and Portland Community College’s Carolyn Moore Writers House Residency.