What is The Bad'Uns: Clown Acts of Contagion?
Women in dangerously, dangerously bad moods... portrayed by clowns.
The all-women clown troupe Clowns Ex Machina has a new production!
Inspired by legends of “the Bad-uns” – famous women criminals, outlaws and killers – this clown-theatre show examines notoriety, morality, defiance, and the social constraints of womanhood. Mischievous, startling, and sublimely ridiculous, this world premiere contains interwoven acts of song, dance, verbal wit, and incredible humor.
All women, all funny, being bad.
Coming to the Tony-award winning theatre LaMaMa November 7th - 17th, 2019.
All The Stuff We Need
Your money will go to all of these wonderful necessities!
- Rehearsal space
- Artists’ fees
- Backstage Clown wranglers
- Turning on the lights
- Catchy Advertising things
- Red noses
- Screws, duct tape and twine (and other stuff )
- Ticket takers
- Potential overdue fines when returning library books (a.k.a. dramaturgy)
... and somebody’s got to feed the baby! (babies, actually--there are a few)
Why Donate to Clowns Ex Machina?
“The human race has one really effective weapon and that is laughter.” -- Mark Twain
The physical, funny, bewitching, satirical work of Clowns Ex Machina is ripe for these days we live in. Kendall Cornell and her troupe of all-women clowns use the ancient art of clowning to stir the pot of the collective unconscious and shake our deepest assumptions loose. With their newest show The Bad’uns, they put our society in a dunk tank and land hit after hit with their unruly and sometimes unexpectedly heart-breaking clown-theatre.
The New York Times said they are “reminders that the greatest clowns try to make people laugh to help stave off existential horrors.”
Eva Yaa Asantewaa called their work “kaleidoscopically-dizzying physical theater of the absurd with a wicked steel edge that organizes itself just below an insinuating charm.”
Other Ways You Can Help These Clowns
amazing photos by Vanessa Lenz