This Way to the Dada Revolution!
A one-of-a-kind spectacle loosely based on the life of Hugo Ball, one of the founders of the highly influential DADA anti-art movement. Through Ball’s story, the show explores themes of art, love, faith, and the unexpected cost of pushing the boundaries between puppetry, mask, visual art, and dance. With anarchic humor, Hugo Ball: a Dada puppet AdvenTurE!!/?1!!?? promises to be engagingly entertaining and entirely Pointless.
RUN TIME: 80 minutes with one 10 minute intermission.
PLEASE NOTE: This show contains puppet sexuality, gunshots, strobe lights, profanity, and violence. Suggested age 13+
“What is remarkable about Pointless’ production is not how reckless and joyful it is, but in fact how structured and focused it is...it demonstrates again how Pointless Theatre, through their brand of shameless spectacle, ends up being more substantive than the majority of shows in the area today.””
PRESS
"A dizzying disaster of artistic and epic proportions...I loved every minute of it." - TheatreBloom
"Eye-catching mayhem" - The Washington Post
"A chaotic romp" - Washington Post Express
"A fun and inventive show, filled with the wild abandon at the heart of any art movement." - DC Theatre Scene
ENSEMBLE & CREATIVE TEAM
Cast: FRANK CEVARICH, KYRA CORRADIN, MADELINE KEY, DEVIN MAHONEY, HILARY MORROW, STACY MUSSELMAN, SADIE LEIGH, MATTHEW SPARACINO, SCOTT WHALEN, SARAH WILBY
JOSIE FELT Stage Manager
Scenery Provided by Renegade Productions
DAVID LLOYD OLSON Playwright
MATT RECKEWEG Director
RACHEL MENYUK Assistant Director
AARON BLIDEN Composer/Music Director
LEX DAVIS Fight Director
PATTI KALIL Set/Props/Puppets
LEE GERSTENHABER Costumes
MARY KEEGAN Lights
MICHAEL WINCH Sound
The Hugo Ball revival premiered April 15, 2016 at Capital Fringe’s Trinidad Theatre
ENSEMBLE & CREATIVE TEAM
DAVID LLOYD OLSON Playwright
MATT RECKEWEG Director
PATTI KALIL Designer
AARON BLIDEN Original Music
ROBERT CHRISTOPHER MANZO Percussion
RACHEL PARKS Stage Manager
Cast: LEE GERSTENHABER, BRENDAN EDWARD KENNEDY, ALEX LEIDY, FRANK LIGHTSABER, DEVIN MAHONEY, STACY MUSSELMAN, DAVID LLOYD OLSON, MATT RECKEWEG, SADIE LEIGH, MICHAEL SALTZMAN, SCOTT WHALEN, SARAH WILBY
PRESS & RECOGNITION
Winner, Best Experimental Show, Capital Fringe
5 Stars - Maryland Theatre Guide
Editors' Pick - The Washington Post
"The puppets in this production are nothing like Bert and Ernie and would probably blast Elmo into oblivion." - DC Theatre Scene
Method to the Madness, Diamondback
“For nearly all of this anarchic performance, the actors controlling the puppets are visible, and it is the performers’ unstoppable exuberance that dominate the show — and what make it so much fun...If this sounds like an hour of sheer zaniness, it is, and in the wrong hands that can become precious and boring. But PTC gets the tone just right, focused but flowing, outrageous without the smug self-consciousness of camp...In short, I had a great time.”