RED BASTARD
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CACTUS: THE SEDUCTION

RED BASTARD
Written by:  Eric Davis with Sue Morrison
Red Bastard is a Dangerous Seductive Comedy Monster! After 5-star reviews and sold out shows across North America and Europe, America’s premiere bouffon unleashes a pompous theatrical master class in this critically-acclaimed Bouffon show. His mission:  to charm, disarm, shock and seduce.  His target: you. 

Red Bastard is not clown.  He is not here to please you.  He has come to make you surrender- to play the audience like a devil does a fiddle. Experience this exquisite monstrosity as he delicately leads you through a no-holds-barred theatrical master class- demanding to know nothing less than the existential query, “Who the hell do you think you are?”  Lines will be crossed and laughs will be had in this interactive feast of biting wit, improvisation, and physical prowess. Audiences should be prepared for anything to happen in this interactive show, in which Red Bastard engages the audience in raw conversation, uncovering ridiculous and disturbing truths. 

"Very Very Funny." The New York Times “One of the Premiere Clowns of our Time” Gothamist “A Cult Favorite” Time Out NY
"The real deal folks ... New, exciting, fantastic creation. . . This guy is one of the hottest, funniest performance artists on the scene today. Fanatics like us will be lining up early!" Backstage “New York’s Clown Prince” Toronto Sun “One of a kind. His humor is smart, subversive and in the truest and best sense of the word, outrageous.” Joe Raiola, Senior Editor, MAD Magazine
"Extremely contagious… Davis puts everything he has into his character." Village Voice “Red Bastard earned outrageous laughs with a mix of physical comedy, jokes and audience interaction" Hollywood Reporter

CACTUS: The Seduction
a solo show
by Jonno Katz
Directed by Mark Chavez
CACTUS is a unique physically devised solo show that is both irresistible love story and carnival of boundless imaginings, a hilarious search for love in the most unlikely of places. Phil slips between reality (walking      through a desert with 2 weird characters) and fantasy (talking directly to the audience spinning yarns and leaving them in hysterics). It is a multi-            layered, theatrical, stand-up, explosion of imagination.

2004, 2007 Winner Vancouver “Georgia Straight Pick of the Fringe”
2004 Winner Toronto “Pick of the Fringe”
2007 “Best Director” award Melbourne Short and Sweet Festival
2009 “Best Actor” award Angry Film Festival
2009 Jonno won “Outstanding Solo Performance” Ottawa Fringe
2009 The Accident won “Best of Fest” Winnipeg Fringe
2009 Jonno won “Best Male Performer” Victoria Fringe
 
“Deserves more exclamation marks than the paper will allow. If you             can't     get tickets, it is imperative that you either steal them or sneak in.” Vancouver *****

“Both Brechtian and pant-wettingly hilarious.” Toronto **** ½

“Many performers attempt to create comedy that's whimsical and bizarre. It's a difficult trick to pull off, and few succeed. Enter Australia's Jonno Katz, who absolutely nails this theatrical form…Take my word for it, CACTUS is a must-see. Jonno Katz is brilliant.”  Times Colonist, Victoria **** ½

“One of a handful of Comedy Festival shows that truly strives to enlarge the vernacular of comedy, Cactus takes its audience on a tour of a psyche that is, in turn, Lenten and lush.” The Age, Melbourne