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  Crazyface at Nimbus Theatre

Crazyface

Nimbus Theatre
1517 Central Ave NE Minneapolis

Famed fantasy-horror novelist Clive Barker (Hellraiser, Candyman) created this dark stage satire that follows a 16th-century simpleton called Crazyface on a fool's adventure. After receiving a mysterious treasure box, Crazyface is pursued through a dream-like magical world, accompanied by an ever-present angel, where he encounters a trio of international spies, a gang of lady bandits, a gender-bending pope, dangerous clowns, some pig farmers and a mystical conspiracy led by a fiendish cleric. Shadow Horse Theatre Company stages this surrealist fantasy, that explores religious hypocrisy and the nature of good and evil, while offering up some black humor as well.

Thru - Jul 26, 2014

Wednesdays: 7:30pm
Thursdays: 7:30pm
Fridays: 7:30pm
Saturdays: 7:30pm
Sundays: 2:00pm



Price: $20

Box Office: 612-548-1379

Running Time: 2hrs, 45mins;with one intermission

www.shadowhorsetheatre.com/current-productions.html



  Crazyface Reviews

Twin Cities Daily Planet - Recommended

"...The horror elements seem to be where Barker, von Stoetzel and Shadow Horse all feel the most comfortable. But it feels like a large swath of Crazyface also wants to be seen as comic, or farcical, or absurd. Comedy and horror can exist together, but it’s always a tricky mix, and more often than not, people can’t make it work. Either their heart isn’t in one side or the other of the mix, or try as they might, they just don’t have the tools to pull it off. Also, I must admit that, given my shaky history with clowns as entertainment rather than just pure nightmare fuel, my particular audience brain may have been more inclined to expect something terrible rather than something funny to happen. That said, the horrific and the grotesque in this stew seemed to land with the force intended, while the comedy seemed labored, drawn out, and often laugh-free. Again, this seems to be just as much the script’s issue as the production’s. If the writer doesn’t give you something nimble and funny, even the cleverest comic often can’t save it."
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Matthew Everett


Aisle Say Twin Cities - Recommended

"...Clive Barker’s creations are often explorations of the carnivalesque (as defined by Russian critic Mikhail Bakhtin as an artistic mode that subverts and liberates the assumptions of the dominant style or atmosphere through humor and chaos). He brings unlikely characters together, welcomes unacceptable behavior, looks to unite that which is usually separate (heaven and hell, good and evil, madness and sanity), and celebrates the sacrilegious and ritualistic. Barker is also interested in violence, depravity and the amoral as a path to knowledge. These themes are more developed in his later work, but are present in Crazyface."
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Michael Opperman



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