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'Always making demented performances': Meet the professional clown with a show about the Holocaust

JL;DR SUMMARY Alexandra Tatarsky's avant-garde one-woman show, "Sad Boys in Harpy Land," delves into complex themes through the lens of clowning, a traditionally interactive and playful form of theater. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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HolocaustJewish IdentityLower East SidePerformance ArtExistentialismGoetheAlexandra TatarskyClowningAvant Garde Theater

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New York, United States
"After graduating from Reed College I studied Russian Jewish experimental poetics and translation theory, so I was, like, thinking a lot about nonsense Tatarsky returned to the Lower East Side."

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