2008 SEASON

Overview | Mr. Marmalade (April 4 – May 3) | In the Garden (May 30 – June 28) | Freakshow (July 25 – August 23) | Buried Child (September 26 – October 25) | Lord of the Burgeoning Lumber (November 20 – December 20)

FREAKSHOW
by Carson Kreitzer
directed by Geoffrey Hoffman

July 25 – August 23

Cross the threshold into the human sideshow.

At the turn of the last century, a traveling Freakshow grinds to a halt. Things are changing. The anger of being stared at, trapped and caged, is at war with the freaks’ reassurance of knowing their place in the universe.  But the growing defiance of the freaks is no act. Will the Dog Faced Woman break her bonds from the show and shatter their fragile edifice of sustaining interdependence; can the jaded and  profoundly broken Ringmaster find redemption through his love for the beautiful Woman With No Arms and No Legs; will Aquaboy, the human salamander, find love with a obsessed outsider; and the Pinhead find solace in Jesus, or burn the place down?  In this poetic, gritty world, there may be a way out. 

Company member Geoffrey Hoffman, who helmed ‘07’s Demon Baby, directs Carson Kreitzer’s funny, strange and provocative look at humanity through  a funhouse mirror.