It's content meant to encourage audiences
to “go within”, be it within themselves, enlightening conversations, and or within constructs ripe for reconstruction.
What is Inner-tainment?
Keeping my eye
on the PIES!
MUSICAL PODCAST
The Misadventure of Clown ZerO (MACZ) is a fictional, musical storytelling narrative for podcast. Ostensibly, the thirteen episode season is about a storm that threatens to destroy the world that the characters of MACZ reside in;
but the true subject of the show are the events, revelations, and life-lessons that occur when a ponderous, misfit clown born without a
"Mirth-mark", Clown ZerO, and their best
friends, find themselves inside the storm itself.
A veritable "Should-Storm" in fact, all in search
of Clown ZerO’s nose (the narrator of our tale) who has left ZerO’s body to prove a simple
point: that ZerO is not the misfit story that they’ve been telling themselves and that there’s a hero inside all of us.
Resembling something of an adult storybook for the modern age the podcast takes inspiration from classics like "The Wizard of Oz" and
"The Phantom Tollbooth" to tell a quirky,
non-traditional modern-day fable that confronts both the high-brow quandaries of a self-aware existence and the low-brow realities of everyday life. In an age that is so digitally “connected”, MCAZ seeks to unplug it’s listeners’ anxieties by allowing them to dive into a mirrored, cartoon fantasy that’s just familiar enough to reflect their own nature. So as the misfit, “every-clown” goes on their journey of self-discovery, care, reflection, and empowerment — MCAZ invites its listeners to do the same.
The Misadventures of Clown ZerO
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SOLO THEATER
“All Up in a White Woman’s Closet” is a one-woman adventure inside the psyche tracing the journey of a young woman in search of self and of racial identity.
This she does by way of a much cluttered closet and much to her horror, a metaphysical mammy she’s somehow manifested to help clean it! Jammed within this symbolic closet are hidden all the subconscious notions amassed
over the ages by her ancestors. Looming in long forgotten corners are stuffed all the memories accompanying foremothers and fathers who found themselves helplessly absorbed into a culture not their own. The closet, which extends into the audience, reflects this. In addition to housing costume pieces to be used during the show the space overflows with “Darky Art”, gross African-American caricatures of old.
These unsettling sights, coupled with skin-bleaches, hair relaxers and straightening combs etc. serve as archival testament to how people of color have seen themselves depicted over the years, thus illuminating and seeking to heal the subsequent self-loathing the images have at times spawned. The general premise of the closet then is to give voice to an assortment of characters as they try to find their proper place within an ever-changing society that long ago consumed them but would now prefer to forget why or how. This it does through a series of vignettes that cross the spectrum of time, sex and circumstance, both real and or imagined. By sorting through the myriad of things placed within the closet by those making the arduous journey from being themselves mere property to the owners thereof, we arrive at our theme: Once a character is exposed and given life, the closet’s collective consciousness is then freed of it. By exposing and theatrically disposing of this mythic closet’s dirty secrets and asking the question what does racial justice look like in it today, the play hopes to establish a platform of discourse giving people around the world cause to look into their own experiential closets in answer.