The month long Solo Performance Festival #4 is coming to an end this weekend and tonight through Sunday you have the opportunity to see three wonderful performances all in one night.
Ben DeLaCreme’s Piece de Resistance! (the piece she should have resisted) as she combines her background in the performing and visual arts with a love of spectacle, glamour and Saturday morning cartoons to create a thick sludge of sparkly entertainment certain to stick to your ribs:
At last Seattle’s terminally delightful star of stage and street shares the secrets that have tricked dozens of audience members into enjoying her company. Join DeLaCreme as she peels back the outer layers of makeup and artifice to reveal the makeup and artifice within.
Then it’s “Middle” by Jennifer Jasper who is a co-founder of King’s Elephant Theatre and Pulp Vixens.
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to grown up in a house with five girls and a mother with a propensity for falling down, a father who doesn’t really like children, and a grandfather whose hobby is making dildos? Well, this is Jennifer Jasper’s life. She has a unique and hilarious way of telling these stories. Performed improvisationally, she takes you on a journey from growing up as the middle child in a middle class family to the middle of her own mid-life.
And finally, The Total Package: A Journey Into Manhood by Ernie Von Schmaltz (Anna Allen)
Take a ride on the mustache express with this hilarious gender-bending guide to masculinity! Ernie Von Schmaltz leads this 30 minute excerpted show demonstrating the finer points of being a man. Using dance, song, film, humor and flow charts, you will experience a transformative seminar like no other.
All three of these solo performances in one night April 1, 2 and 3, 2010 at Theatre Off Jackson starting at 7:30pm for just $15.
Sunday night it’s Lisa Koch in Demonstrate On the Place of My Abode with 
stories of a funny father, the music he inspired, and a quirky look at life and death which has been the surprise hit of the festival. Lisa Koch is one-half of loony sketch-comedy duo, Dos Fallopia (Ham for the Holidays).
Sunday April 4, 2010 at Theatre Off Jackson 7:30pm, $15.
Go to www.theatreoffjackson.org/spf4.html for info and tickets.
