The Last Show You'll Ever See

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Monday, August 26th, 2013
8/26 @ 6pm, 8/27 @ 9:30pm, 8/28 @ 5pm, 8/30 @ 6:45pm, 8/31 @ 5pm

From Portland, Oregon, the Nomadic Theatre Co brings you The Last Show You�ll Ever See, a fast-paced, clownesque trombone concert interrupted by the end of the world, as part of the Victoria Fringe Theatre Festival. Offbeat humor and virtuosic pantomime ensue as our intrepid trombonist encounters, discovers, and causes scenarios of impending doom. Dinosaurs perish. Empires collapse. Horsemen melt in fiery lakes. The trombone plays on �

�Foster's a fool, in the grand old sense of someone who approaches truth by smashing convention and cloaking her transgression with a laugh.� -- Bob Hicks, The Oregonian

In The Last Show You�ll Ever See, an original show created by Sarah Liane Foster, physical comedy, classical trombone, verbal acrobatics, and doomsday-ism collide in a surprising, touching, and extremely funny theatrical clown show. Many years in recent history have contained multiple dates predicted by someone to be the end of the world; this hour-long show contains 23 possible apocalyptic scenarios. Foster created the show with coaching by Giovanni Fusetti (founder of the Helikos International School of Theatre Creation in Florence, Italy), artistic collaboration from a crack team of clowns called the Geniuses, direction by Elizabeth Baron, and input from numerous audiences. This apocalyptic, bizarrely intellectual, hilarious show is funniest for viewers aged 10 and older.

★★★★ �Comically and intellectually, she�s a terrific talent.� � Cam Fuller, The StarPhoenix, Saskatoon.

Trained in physical theatre and clown at the Dell�Arte International School of Physical Theatre, at the Celebration Barn Theatre, and with Giovanni Fusetti, Sarah Liane Foster has been creating, teaching, and performing clown since 2002. She splits her time between Portland, Oregon, and Florence, Italy, where she teaches movement at Giovanni Fusetti�s movement theatre school, Helikos. In 2010, Sarah was honored with the Portland Civic Theatre Guild�s Leslie O. Fulton Fellowship for studies to deepen her pedagogic and performance work. Her work in her community in Portland, and internationally with Clowns Without Borders, earned her the 2011 Portland Juggling Festival�s Ben Linder Award for Most Inspirational Juggler, although she is not a juggler. Read more about Sarah and the Nomadic Theatre Co at www.nomadictheatre.org.