Cirque du Slaque! – Captain Smartypants Under the Big Top
Cirque du Slaque is a feast indeed. The members of Captain Smartypants delight in creating new personae for themselves, as audiences who saw Trousers of Terror and PowerPants! will recall. Cirque du Slaque introduces us to Candy the Suicidal Clown, Barbella the Strong Bearded Lady, The World’s Shortest Tall Man, Dragoslav the Magnificent, and Charlotte, a spoiled little girl who is left behind at the circus and must learn to fend for herself.
Songs in Cirque du Slaque run the gamut from ridiculous to sublime and beyond. Captain Smartypants will be putting their own stamp on Peggy Lee’s “Is That All There Is?” and Dead Can Dance’s “The Carnival is Over” as well as songs by Emerson Lake and Palmer, Stephen Schwartz, and a whole passel of classical composers. Original songs by Eric Lane Barnes will take on the daily circus we commonly mistake for our media, the art of onomatopoeia, delicious and disgusting candies, and why no one loves clowns.
Since circus, vaudeville, and burlesque all shared many of the same entertaining circuits, it seems fitting that Captain Smartypants will be joined by two prominent burlesque entertainers. Verotica143 has taken the local scene by storm with her erotic mime – a highly charged depiction of sexual compulsion and control. And Sydni Devereux will strut her kittenish wares as she reinvents moments that recall Gyspy Rose Lee, Marilyn Monroe, and Sophie Tucker.
Cirque du Slaque at the Capitol Hill Arts Center, 1621 12th Avenue, Seattle on June 6, 7, 8, 13, and 14, 2008 at 7:30 pm.
Tickets are $20 in advance and $25 at the door.
While CHAC is an all-ages theater, Cirque du Slaque is recommended for mature audiences only – breasts and bottoms will be bared.
