Acrobuffos - PLASTIC: A Clown Opera, Work-in-Progress Performance - Wednesday, July 6 at 7:00 PM

Pay What You Decide

You reserve your space and pay what you decide following the Work-in-Progress Performance as a social experiment as you decide the value of the art.

Acrobuffos will be in residence at the Quick June 29 – July 8, 2022 to create their new work, PLASTIC: A Clown Opera. Audiences will have the opportunity to see the work in progress and then discuss the piece afterwards with the artist.

Once upon a future time, when the natural world is a mere memory, two industrial clowns play with never-ending streams of transparent plastic.

Within the growing rubbish, double images glow in color, evoking lost life. Extinct birdsongs haunt plastic mountainsides, trash bags become clouds and jellyfish, and clowns dream of sleeping whales. A contemporary spin on the Sorcerer’s Apprentice, only this time the Sorcerer is not turning off the industrial faucet. Dark themes, but seriously funny.

Plastic sheets flutter with weightless grace, shimmering in brilliant color. Ordinary plastic has an inherent elegance hidden beneath its cheapness, abundance, and disposability. Though society is aware of the long-term consequences of plastic use, we have become dependent on the utilitarian, electronic, and life-saving benefits of our synthetic world. With imagination and laughter, PLASTIC probes the uneasy conclusion of humanity’s current path - a world with no more nature.

PLASTIC is the Acrobuffos’ most ambitious artistic project yet: creating laughter for a voiceless planet, compelling the audience to care.