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About Marcel + The Art Of Laughter on Broadway
Venue
Theatre for a New Audience at Polonsky Shakespeare Center
262 Ashland Place
Brooklyn, NY 11217
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Brooklyn, NY 11217
Opening
Oct. 27, 2017
Closing
Nov. 19, 2017
Story for Marcel + The Art Of Laughter
Jos Houben and Marcello Magni, who starred in Samuel Beckett’s Fragments at TFANA, are comic masters and original members of the famed Complicité. In Marcel, which they co-created, they play an aging physical comedian and an inscrutable, clipboard-wielding nemesis mysteriously enjoined to test him with a battery of absurd tasks. Slapstick meets the limits of age and “all ages laugh and recognize their own absurdity in the comic antics.” – The Guardian
A comedy about comedy, part performance and masterclass, about what makes audiences laugh.Performing in English, Jos Houben, dissects everyday life – a baby’s first steps, a man falling in a restaurant, the essence of various cheeses – revealing why laughter is at the core of our humanity. The Guardian calls it a show about “how a body can make people laugh.”
A comedy about comedy, part performance and masterclass, about what makes audiences laugh.Performing in English, Jos Houben, dissects everyday life – a baby’s first steps, a man falling in a restaurant, the essence of various cheeses – revealing why laughter is at the core of our humanity. The Guardian calls it a show about “how a body can make people laugh.”