Sugar Mud (in LA)

San Francisco, CA – 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 tornado. 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?,” “whose is this and why is it on me?,” and “what’s the dog’s name?”

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

Starts 7:30PM PT