Calgary, New York Clown Festival, La Soiree world tour
A solo revue show for clown, Mooky Cornish. Scenes from the show feature regularly in La Soiree.
PRESS 'International Super Clown Mooky Cornish has taken New York by storm with her brilliant solo tour-de-farce, '
'It takes a tremendous amount of effort and skill to play awkward and clumsy, because either: a) moments of grace and flair can sneak in; or b) the performance can just end up being genuinely awkward (and therefore unpleasant to watch). Fortunately, Canadian clown and Cirque du Soleil alum Mooky knows how to play awkward and clumsy (rather than just be awkward and clumsy), which she demonstrates in her very funny and energetic one-person show, The Glories of Gloria Revue, playing at the Brick's Clown Theatre Festival. Mooky plays Gloria, an aspiring actress who wants to create a large spectacular revue. Unfortunately, she's the only one in this extravaganza, which means not only are there no large chorus line numbers, there are no stage hands to help, either. No matter. Gloria will fake it for as long as she can, hoping that the audience won't notice that many of the acts are either puppets, prerecorded film performances, or herself in different wigs and costumes (posing as ' James Comtois
