Labor Day weekend, Children’s Fantasy Weekend, a basket of sunscreen and hand wipes, four adults (one costumed as lovely wench–me) and three very excited small humans in costumes, crowns and elf ears. That was our merry crew bound for the Pittsburgh Renaissance Festival in West Newton, Pennsylvania, but a forty-minute …
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Deep and dizzying, joyful and flecked with horror, this work of "absurdist clown physical theater" is a remarkable plumbing of history and childhood.
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