Comedy, Clowning & Slapstick In Theatre For A New Audience's Double-Bill

The Leonard Lopate Show | Nov 13, 2017

Jos Houben and Marcello Magni join us to discuss a double-bill of comic one-acts at Theatre for a New Audience: “Marcel” and “The Art of Laughter.” In the 1970’s Marcello and Jos studied at the famed L'École Internationale de Théâtre with its founder, Jacques Lecoq. In "Marcel," they play an aging comedian and his clipboard-wielding nemesis mysteriously, who presents him with a series of absurd tasks. In the "The Art of Laughter," Houben explores the comedy in everyday life from a baby’s first steps to the essence of various cheeses.

"Marcel" and "The Art of Laughter" run through Nov. 19 at the Polonsky Shakespeare Center (262 Ashland Place, Brooklyn).

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