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— Production photo credit: Gary Mulcahey SOMETHING The Cultch presents WHEN: May 22 – June 2, 2013 WHERE: HISTORIC THEATRE AT THE CULTCH TICKETS: Tickets from $17! Single tickets on sale now through The Cultch’s Box Office: ADDED VALUE: Enjoy a lively post-show Q&A session with the artists: May 23 & 28 MUMP & SMOOT RETURN TO THE CULTCH WITH A REVIVAL OF THE HIT SHOW SOMETHING You can celebrate with famed Canadian clown duo Mump & Smoot when they return to The Cultch with Something — the hit show that put them on the map! Last delighting Vancouver audiences in 1994, Mump & Smoot are back with a rare revival of the show that started it all. In Something, we find the intrepid duo prancing through the etiquette of a fine cafe, the sorrow and despair of a wake, and the pandemonium of the doctor’s office. Mump & Smoot, also referred to as clowns of horror, inhabit a parallel universe called Ummo, worship a god named Ummo, and speak their own brand of gibberish, Ummonian. Enter a giddy, scary world of pure imagination, as the duo turns conventional clowning on its head in this darkly humourous work that ranges from zany to macabre. Not for children!
Mump & Smoot are the comic creations of Michael Kennard and John Turner. Their distinctive style of clowning finds its roots deep within their work with Canadian clown master Richard Pochinko, with whom they worked extensively for the last two years of his life. Apart from numerous short sketches their primary repertoire includes seven full-length shows: Something (1989), Caged (1990), Ferno (1992), Tense (1997), Something Else (1998), Flux (2002), and Cracked (2010). Their critical acclaim and popularity was developed through consistent sell-outs at Fringe Festivals across Canada. They then went on to have successful runs at many major regional theatres including the La Jolla Playhouse, the Yale Repertory Theatre in New Haven, the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, Center Stage in Baltimore, the Dallas Theater Center, Alberta Theatre Project in Calgary, and at the Canadian Stage Berkeley Street in Toronto. Mump & Smoot have also appeared Off-Broadway at the Astor Place Theater in New York, and at the Palestinian National Theatre and the Acco Theatre Festival in Israel. This dynamic duo won two Dora Mavor Moore awards in June 2003, were nominated for a Canadian Comedy Award for Comedic Play (Mump & Smoot in Flux), and are past recipients of a Canadian Comedy Award for Outstanding Performance in a Comedic Play. They also won the Outstanding Small Visiting Company Award at the Boston Theater Awards and appeared in the Genie-Award winning film The Fairy Who Didn't Want To Be A Fairy Anymore, as well as their own Canadian Film Centre short The Princess Who Wouldn't Smile.
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