Horse Trade 10.2

Horse Trade presents

The Cody Rivers Show North
American tour of:
Meanwhile Everywhere

 

April 7, 9, 10 and 11

Tuesday Preview
@ 7pm
Thursday thru Saturday
@ 8pm

@ UNDER St. marks
(94 St. Marks Place)

Tickets $18
$15 students/seniors

"THE CODY RIVERS SHOW impresses as powerfully and uniquely as “Blue Man Group” did when it first appeared years ago: original brilliance."
Richmond Shepard-- Performing Arts INSIDER and
lively-arts.com

The Cody Rivers Show creates kinetic and unpredictable comedy theatre that has amazed audiences and defied description for the past four years.

New York IT Awards

"By the end of The Cody Rivers Show I knew that I had seen a mysterious, odd, fun, challenging and deeply disturbing performance by two very
creative and innovative entertainers. The closest experience to it would be seeing ‘Waiting for Godot’ performed by Chinese acrobats. "
Larry Litt


Pushing the envelopes of physical theatre, dance, music, and highconcept comedy, The Cody Rivers Show delivers unique showsunlike any other comedy act, past or present. Their latest new show – ‘Meanwhile Everywhere’ – presents a surreal interface of themes, characters and story lines seamlessly joined with breakneck leaps between universes where mysterious rules are always in effect. Unexpected juxtapositions disarm audience expectations and lead viewers deep into absurd realms where laughter is often the only thing that makes sense.

"After seeing The Cody Rivers Show...everything else will seem less captivating and far less physically fit."
Time Out New York

"…a stunning performance…a welcome anomaly in the comedy world."
New York Press

Awards:
‘Just for Laughs, Best Comedy Award’ – Montreal Fringe Festival (’08)
‘Best Comedy’ – Victoria Fringe Festival (’06 & ’07)
‘Pick of The Fringe’ – Vancouver Fringe Festival (’06)

"...impeccably rehearsed...physically impressive...funny...engaging...beyond creative...They really are something you’ve never seen before."
VH1's Best Week Ever

"...brilliant in every sense of the word." The
Orlando Sentinel

"This isn't safe material.”
The Oregonian

“The Cody Rivers Show was out of this worldoutstanding, absurdist, experimental theater that paddles above the surface of the sketch comedy genre…Mike Mathieu & Andrew Connor would look at home on or off Broadway.”
The Apiary (NYC)

"The Cody Rivers Show is completely unhinged...You have never seen anything like it."
The Edmonton Sun

“There’s not a single predictable moment in this 90 minute program of some of the most original, inventive, and virtuosic sketch comedy I've ever seen. The Cody Rivers Show’s Mike Mathieu and Andrew Connor display wicked imaginations, superlative timing, and breathtaking physical skill in these supremely weird sketches. Nothing short of genius.”
The Georgia Straight (Vancouver)

"...razorsharp sketch comedy full of wordplay, tight satire and clever improvisation."
The Minneapolis StarTribune

“…blistering humour at Formula One speeds… wildly inventive and nearly inexplicably funny comedy…everyone should enjoy this show.” The
Montreal Mirror

"The Cody Rivers Show was absolutely mesmerizing. Forgive me: I didn’t, actually couldn’t,write anything down. From moment one...no one could tear their eyes away."
Time Out Chicago

"...entertaining and inventive in direct proportion to how difficult it is to describe. Think highconcept dance comedy that at moments verges on optical illusion."
Minneapolis City Pages

The Cast and Crew

Andrew Connor received his theater, dance and vocal education at Ohio Wesleyan University, where he acted and danced in, and choreographed and directed numerous productions, while also performing in the Babbling Bishops improv comedy troupe.
Andrew runs Infinity Live Productions (www.infinityliveproductions.com), a live theatre and comedy production company. He is the Artistic Director of Sketchfest Seattle (www.sketchfest.org) and the Executive Director of iDiOM Theater (www.idiomtheater.com), and in 2008 he wrote and toured a solo show, Boom, across the U.S. and Canada.

Mike Mathieu grew up in Beavercreek, OH. He has a B.A. in creative writing/literature from Ohio Wesleyan University, where he also studied acting, playwriting, and dance, and was a four year member of the campus improv troupe, the Babbling Bishops. He moved to Bellingham in ’04 to write and act at the iDiOM Theater (www.idiomtheater.com), of which he became the Artistic Director in 2008.
Mike has written several full length plays, including a solo show called ‘Purple Heart,’ which he debuted in 2008.