fatboy

L.A. theater as social dialogue

WEST COAST PREMIERE!

by JOHN CLANCY

JOHN

need theater presents

need theater

The WEST COAST PREMIERE!

THE IMAGINED LIFE THEATER

5615 San Vicente Blvd.

LA, CA 90019

Fridays and Saturdays - 8:00pm

Sundays - 5:00

September 26th - October 26th

Fridays and Saturdays - 8:00pm

Sundays - 5:00

THE IMAGINED LIFE THEATER

5615 San Vicente Blvd.

LA, CA 90019

$17 general admission

$15 students and seniors

Fatboy is a black comedy that exposes the grotesque underbelly of human nature in all its hilarious vulgarity. Based on Alfred Jarry's groundbreaking absurdist play Ubu Roi, Fatboy follows its titular character and his wife Fudgie on their bloody journey from the tenement slums to the heights of power. It is a live-action Punch and Judy show, a fast-moving, shocking funhouse-mirror reflection of the world today.

"a highly entertaining, knockabout satire. . ." -NY Times

Playwright John Clancy is the Founding Artistic Director of the Present Company and a founding Artistic Director of the New York International Fringe Festival, North America's largest theater and performance festival.

His plays have won the American Shorts Contest, the San Francisco Playwrights Center Dramarama, and the Edinburgh Festival Fringe First Award. He has directed five Scotsman Fringe First-winning productions at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, including Americana Absurdum by Brian Parks, Cincinnati by Don Nigro, Horse Country and screwmachine/eyecandy, both by CJ Hopkins, and his own Fatboy. Both Horse Country and Cincinnati went on to win the Best of the Fringe Award at the Adelaide Fringe in 2004.

He serves on the Advisory Council of needtheater, the New York Theatre Experience and the 24:7 Theatre Festival in Manchester, England. He was awarded the New York Magazine Award in 1997 for "creativity, enterprise, and vision." In 2006, he received an Obie Award for Sustained Excellence in Direction. He lives on the Lower East Side of Manhattan with his wife, actress Nancy Walsh.

"groundbreaking. . . an important theatrical moment." -The Scotsman

". . .savage. . grimly comic. . . shocking. . . employs comedy as a blunt weapon. . . Clancy sets you up for belly laughs, then sucker punches you in the gut."- TimeOut NY.