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Mr and Mrs Clark’s ‘Cabba Hey’ is a crowd-pleasing closer to the day. Framed within the cabaret format, the audience expectation is that this is comedy, and this frame allows ‘the Clarks’ to be as experimental as they want without ever worrying about being labelled pretentious. They start with bags over their heads, and in a series of musical skits strip them off only to reveal or assume more and more masks. Disavowing the seriousness of what they do, they can actually be increasingly serious: upon closer study, their piss-take choreography is more choreography than piss-take. When they perform a ventriloquist act with live dummy, it is both absurdly hilarious and heartbreakingly earnest, a balance that has everything to do with their detailed attention to their performance. If cabaret (in the Dadaist tradition) is insurrectionary theatre, then this is insurrectionary cabaret, in that what makes it pleasurable is its more and more clever deferral of pleasure. And so, one of their closing numbers does literally what the Dadaists attempted metaphorically, flicking off its audience – and the audience loves it.Theron Schmidt, a writer with Live Art UK’s Writing from Live Art initiative.www.mrandmrsclark.co.uk

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My Blog

Bezerkus

Mr and Mrs Clark present a brand new show called Bezerkus at the Weston Studio in The Wales Millennium Centre this coming Tuesday , 21st July 2009. The show is a Clarks take on a circus sideshow with ...
Posted by on Sun, 19 Jul 2009 11:21:00 GMT

NEW CLARKS SHOW THIS WEEK!!!!!

Hello Myspacers (are we in any way inferior to facebook? No I don't think so!)Mr and Mrs Clark are proud to announce the first of the summer seasons performances with a show entitled "Walk The Dead Do...
Posted by on Mon, 25 May 2009 09:55:00 GMT

WHAT AM I DOING HERE?

25th - 29th March - Mr and Mrs Clark will feature in the Volcano Theatre Company production "What Am I Doing Here?" in Swansea. The show takes place in a secret location, a bus leaves from Taliesin Ar...
Posted by on Sun, 16 Mar 2008 04:35:00 GMT

Small Nations and The Clarks

..> Small Nations and The Clarks Mr and Mrs Clark are delighted to inform you all that we will be appearing at the Small Nations Festival at Cylcwm. Click on their my space site from our friends se...
Posted by on Sun, 24 Jun 2007 06:40:00 GMT

Some More Cabaret from The Clarks

Hello MySpacers Lovely to be able to talk to you via the ethernet. Just a quick hello and a note to say that despite moving to the countryside we have not forgotten our mission to sieze and dominate t...
Posted by on Mon, 02 Apr 2007 10:39:00 GMT