Sugar Mud

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Meat Bar

Get on the dirt clod bitches -- we're gettin' picked up by a tornada'! “Sugar Mud” is a surreal, solo clown show presented by Meat Bar, a Los Angeles based comedian and performance artist. This show is inspired by their Granny (born 1908) getting picked up by a tornado (in 1920), the writer Jorge Luis Borges (born 1899) and his short story Circular Ruins (written in 1940), an eternal marriage becoming an eternal divorce (∞), their Mormon temple name [redacted], rock bottoms, and rocks.

The show takes place on a floating clod of dirt that hovers in the eye of the storm. You—the audience—get sucked up into this domain, ruled by a crone so ancient, so washed up, they are difficult to distinguish from the rock formations that surround them. 

Through a vortex of magical surrealism and fringe society wisdom, 'Sugar Mud' explores themes of natural order, oral histories, historical birth orders, family lineage, and generational rock bottoms. The show examines the device of storytelling–how it is used to foist systemic control, and the alchemy that occurs when stories are rewritten–restructuring the imposed order. And because we’re traveling through time in a tornado, much thematic mass gets picked up along the way. The show asks important questions like “what’s dangerous and to who?,” “who’s is this?,” and “what’s the dog’s name?”

But most importantly, on its floor and on it's face, the show is absurdly stupid.

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Audience Reviews:

“Sugar Mud was an inventive, beautiful mix of sacred and profane. Surprises throughout and the ending had me sitting with my mouth wide open. I felt like I was in the damn Courage the Cowardly Dog house.”

“Rarely do you arrive in a theater and get transported both gently and instantaneously. Part magical realism, part grandma hang time – Meat made us all familiars in this strangely beautiful space.”

“I got lost in this show’s magic – its elegant movement, its crunchy weird comedy, its ethereal exploration of familial ick and heart – this is a special show.”

“This is easily one of the best show's I've seen in my dang life. Meat was not just a granny, a Mormon gossip – I was a grand kid, I was a Mormon gossip. I was so brought into this transcendent world and did not want to leave. The stage pictures, set, and costuming were in a riveting conversation with each other. Laughing every second, this lil’rally throbbed with brilliance.”

"I didn't know performance could look like this."  

Instagram: @meat_bar  

Genre: Theatre, One-Person Show, Comedy, Drama, Original Script, Avant-Garde/Experimental, Clown  

Rating: FF - Fairly Fringe-y (PG-13)

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