July 23, 2017
Survival

A 46-minute solo piece featuring Elizabeth Fuller as two halves of herself. As Lou, she’s a 77-year-old jack-of-all-trades in a denim jacket. Reading the daily news with its multiple threats of disaster— “Annihilation Awareness Day,” “International Apocalypse Week”— she can only slam down the newspaper in despair.

Coming to her rescue is an inner clown self, Bozo, a red-nosed optimist who scans how-to books and evokes gurus, conspiracies, and the patrons of Smoky’s Bar. She concocts diverse strategies: sorting socks, get-rich schemes, positive thinking, suicide and laughter.

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