Circus Amok 2024 presents:
“THE DOUBLE, or, The Wisdom of the Owl.”
in your park
Friday June 21
Marsha P Johnson State Park, Williamsburg
6:00pm
Kent Ave & North 8th Street
Saturday, June 22
Prospect Park, Brooklyn
2:00pm & 5:00pm
Enter at 9th Street and Prospect Park West
Cross the Park Road and down the hill to the circle of trees.
Sunday, June 23
Coney Island, Brooklyn
2:00pm & 5:00pm
On the Boardwalk near 16th Street,
Between the Carousel and the Parachute Drop.
Circus Amok…reinventing the circus form, borrowing drag fabulousness from Charles Ludlam’s Theater of the Ridiculous, large scale transformation using whole-body masks from Bread and Puppet Theater, and the outdoor bally and verbal rhythm and repertoire from the sideshow, as well as movement vocabulary from post-modern dance. The troupe balances danger with laughter, slipping its critique between the pies in the face and the surreal, scary, and sometimes gender-bent characters of the charivari. –Mark Sussman, in Disturbing the Peace: 20th Century Radical Street Performance, 2001
