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An Awkward Sensation
"An Awkward Sensation" returns to the Exit by popular demand -- following its 100% sold-out "Best of Fringe" run at the San Francisco Fringe Festival!
It's that feeling you get when you're laughing and slightly unsettled at the same time. Kurt Bodden (creator of the hit solo show "Steve Seabrook: Better Than You") and Allison Daniel (named a "Young Master" by Puppetry International Magazine) combine sketch comedy, physical theater, mime, puppetry, and clowning to concoct a world of the ridiculous and strange and hilarious. You might never feel the same way again about flying insects, tweed jackets, or peanut butter.
Fringe-goers commented:
"Utterly random, often silly, slyly absurdist, and occasionally heart-breaking."
"The movement work was really impressive to me. Al is so skilled that she can make a simple vignette of a woman making a peanut butter sandwich into a metaphor of desire and loss. And Kurt executes a scene of a man putting on his pants in the morning with the skill and humor of a young Dick Van Dyke or Buster Keaton."
"Entertaining, intelligent, unpredictable -- the best show I've seen so far this year."
Kurt and Al met in the conservatory program at Flying Actor Studio in San Francisco, studying physical performance with master teachers James Donlon and Leonard Pitt.
KURT BODDEN (kurtbodden.com) is a comedian, writer, and actor. His hit solo show satirizing the personal-growth industry, "Steve Seabrook: Better Than You," was called "comically subversive" by the Huffington Post, as well as "very funny" (SF Chronicle), and "pitch-perfect" (SF Examiner). Kurt performed was a company member at BATS Improv and performed with his own troupe at the Edinburgh Fringe. He graduated from the sketch-comedy program at The Groundlings, toured as a standup comic, and warmed up audiences at television tapings in Los Angeles.
ALLISON DANIEL (OneFleaCircus.com) is a physical performer with rich training in puppetry, mime, clown, mask, and acrobatics. She is a graduate of the Clown Conservatory program at Circus Center in San Francisco, Flying Actor Studio, and the Sandglass Puppetry manipulation intensive. In Chicago Al designed and built (as well as sometimes performing or directing) large-scale puppets for theatre companies including The Joffrey Ballet, Chicago Dramatists, Blair Thomas, House Theatre, the Marriott Theatre of Lincolnshire, and Redmoon Theatre. Her work in both performance and construction give her a wealth of possibilities to mix and match into a unique world of joy, insanity, and unique perspectives.
For more, see awkwardsensation.com.
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LocationExit Stage Left (View)
156 Eddy Street
San Francisco, CA 94102
United States
Categories
| Kid Friendly: Yes! |
| Dog Friendly: No |
| Non-Smoking: Yes! |
| Wheelchair Accessible: Yes! |
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