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BeMe Theatre
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the Award Winning Play
Pochsy's
Lips
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Presented
in the English language |
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12.
October 2010
at 20:30 |
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12.,
13., 14., 15., 16. October |
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19.,
20., 21., 22., 23. October |
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26.,
27., 28., 29., 30. October |
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Showtime
20:30 |
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15.,
21., 27. October |
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11:00 |
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EINSTEIN Kulturzenturm |
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Einsteinstrasse
42 81675 München/Haidhausen |
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U-Bahn: U4,
U5 Max-Weber-Platz |
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Tickets 18€ |
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Students 12
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Groups of
10 or more 15€ per person |
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Reservations
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Fax. 089-385
377-64 |
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Public
Relations: Pfau PR, Breisacher Straße 4, 81667 München
Tel.: 089 / 48 920 970, mobil 0173 / 947 99 35, info[at]pfau-pr.de
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A
black comedy with songs and live music featuring a mercury-poisoned
factory worker, whose monstrous narcissism is matched only
by her willingness to love.
Pochsy's
Lips is the harrowing, hilarious hit written and performed
by award-winning writer/performer Karen Hines. Part stand-up,
part neo-cabaret, this nightly dip into mercury-induced
madness resurrects satire's good name. Eerily coy, seductive
but with a poisonous bite, Hines is an artist who redefines
what's good for us; and if it hurts this divinely, it must
be healthy.
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Click
here to visit Pochsy's website |
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Pochsy
is a factory worker. She works at Mercury Packers … where
she packs mercury. She's probably dying of mercury poisoning,
contracted while handling the stuff at her work. But the details
aren't important. Pochsy herself thinks she's dying because
there's a squid in the place where her heart should be.
We
meet her in the hospital and watch in horror and delight as
she regales stories and sings songs without a note of political
correctness. Ad slogans, self-help mantras and desperate grabs
at meaning are thrown our way in this postmodern parody that
is hysterically funny but terrifying, remarkably sweet yet
bitter all at the same time.
Remodelling
and blending styles like stand-up, absurdism, clowning and
neo-cabaret, Karen Hines creates in Pochsy's Lips some
of the most original and cutting satire to hit the stage.
Beckett
meets Betty Boop in this monologue by Canadian cult heroine
Pochsy, our nasty, vapid, utterly charming vixen.
Governor
General's Literary Award Finalist
Winner of the Alberta Writers Guild Award for Drama in The
Pochsy Plays
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Reviews
Ingenious, acidic comedy
- The Globe & Mail
Hilarious and harrowing
- NOW Magazine
Beckett would have fallen for her.
- EYE Weekly
Imagine Greek Tragedy by Betty Boop
- The Montreal Gazette
I laughed. I cried. I called my friends
- Minneapolis - St. Paul Pioneer Press
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