Some vignettes … descend into slapstick madness.
Other sketches are darker and reminders that the greatest clowns try to make people laugh to help stave off existential horrors”
- NYTIMES (Steven McElroy)
“alternately silly and sophisticated, whimsical and weird, engrossing and entertaining...I fell off my chair laughing”
- Attitude Dance Magazine
“Mainly what we feel is that we're having a blast, because Not Just for Shock Value is so darned much fun.... Practically every comic idea lands, which is remarkably impressive; and the range of these ideas... is pretty impressive as well….
-nytheatre.com (Martin Denton) full review
CLOWNS EX MACHINA
KENDALL CORNELL’S
“You have to see this troupe in person in order to appreciate what they do…. We are left with something like the pleasantly full feeling one gets from a delicious, well-curated, exceptionally creative restaurant meal.”
- BlogCritics.org full review
“their joie de vivre casts its spell.”
-Letstalkoffbroadway.com full review
“kaleidoscopically-dizzying physical theater of the absurd with a wicked steel edge”
- infinitebody.blogspot.com full review
Photo Marina Levitskaya
“Not your mother's female clowns, they make Ball and Burnett look tame!"
- Backstage.com