Dance Theatre Hurjaruuth: Red Pearl Clown Festival

The Red Pearl Clown Festival, aimed at adult audiences, brings together international and domestic clown artists and clownery enthusiasts.

The festival features five unapologetic works by international clowning stars: Deanna Fleysher & Brooke Sciacca (US), Rosa Garland (UK), Diana Gadish (ES), Minttu-Maaria Makkonen (FI), and the performing arts collective M.P.A.C. (SE). This year, the festival takes place from March 20 to 28 at Hurjaruuth’s own stage and at the Turbine Hall at the Cable Factory.

What happens when master auteur Vincent Prixx works on an experimental, homoerotic art movie with pretty boy Dylan Thruster and everyone in the theatre? What kind of performance is praised as a “masterclass in comedy” and “disgusting, daring and unlike anything else” and includes clowning, slime, live worms and tattooing amongst other things? And who is the world-famous rock god Spectacle? (Some have described the star as your wet daydream, the wit of every backstage, a casanova, the guitar hero that every man dreams to be, a c*m-s****ing d**k head…)

All this and much more will be revealed at the Red Pearl Clown Festival!

The festival program also includes an open stage evening, Clownery Lab Sessions, where laughter is guaranteed! Pre-selected clowns will perform short excerpts from their own works in progress or finished performances. The Festival Bar will be open in the Hurjaruuth foyer and will serve as a meeting place throughout the festival.

Performance programme:

• Deanna Fleysher & Brooke Sciacca (US): CINEPRIXX, Hurjaruuth Stage, Fri–Sat 20.–21.3.

• Rosa Garland (UK): Primal Bog, Turbine Hall, Fri–Sat 20.–21.3.

• Diana Gadish (ES): Cruuu, Hurjaruuth Stage, Tue–Wed 24.–25.3.

• Minttu-Maaria Makkonen (FI): SPECTACLE, Turbine Hall, Wed-Thu 25.–26.3.

• Clownery Lab Sessions – open stage evening, Hurjaruuth Stage, Fri 27.3.

• M.P.A.C. (SE): FAIL AWAY, Hurjaruuth Stage, Sat 28.3.

See the more detailed performance times at the Dance Theatre Hurjaruuth's website.