NOT CLOWN by Steve Moore + Carlos Treviño

DIRECTED by Carlos Treviño

In a time when clowns are tortured and circuses banned, a renegade troupe enacts the story of a girl who longs for their outlawed life.

I don't know if there are tickets left, but there are two more performances (tonight and Saturday) of "Not Clown" at Soho Rep. It will be the best $15 you have spent on theater lately.

I have to say, this isn't the play for people expecting a Broadway show. It's more in the spirit of the good East Village / Lower East Side work I saw in the late 80s and early 90s. It's disturbing and strange. I will admit that, at times, I found it annoying and repellent, and wondered what I was doing there. By the end, I realized the dramatic reasons for those sections, and felt it was one of the best things I've seen in the theater in a long time. Those of you who know us probably aren't surprised to read that we like art that annoys, disturbs, and then pulls it all off briliiantly.

The company presenting it, Physical Plant is based in Austin, Texas.

I don't have time to write more right now, but wanted to get this posted so maybe some more people can go see it.