1-MAN NO-SHOW is a multi-award-winning chaotic & absurd solo-clown-show-meets-performance-art EXPERIENCE.
WINNER - ARTISTS’ PICK AWARD - Edmonton Fringe
WINNER - SOLD OUT ARTISTS’ ENCORE AWARD - Cincinnati Fringe
From the minds of multiple Canadian Comedy Award Nominee Isaac Kessler (Director of the award-winning My Grandmother’s Eyepatch and Poems for God) and Academy Award-Winner Gordon Neill comes an artistic tour-de-force examining the question, "What is Theatre?"
Combining Aestheticism with Athleticism, this “utterly bizarre, hilarious” (Intermission Magazine) experience takes over Orlando Fringe’s Yellow Venue from May 15-25, 2025.
Warning: Only lovers of High Art allowed!
(plz call/text me at 402-782-5338 if/when you/I need help)
A-BOUT
WINNING:Winning
TRAILER:Trailer
with Gordon Neill, MBA, Oscar
ABOUT:About
with Gordon Neill, MBA, Oscar
WINNING:Winning is the culmination of several years of creative development by Gordon Neill, directed by Isaac Kessler. Premiering in its full form at the 2024 Edmonton Fringe Festival, the show won the prestigious 2024 Artists’ Pick Award. Sit back and embark on a silent-ish clown journey of self-discovery and transformation to unlock the true winner inside each of us. On his path to redemption, Gordon must overcome the challenge of his greatest foe - himself.
Gordon Neill is the founder of Sweet Action Theatre, Toronto's only clown specialized theatre and the home for the ridiculous. As a creator, teacher and performer Gordon has led clown courses such as Brunch (taught alongside Isaac Kessler and Ken Hall) and Silent Musical (taught alongside Clarke Blair). His diverse performance experience includes a "4-yes" performance on Canada's Got Talent, the award winning show WINNING:Winning and an Oscar win in 2002 (it's a long story). In his spare time he is a Managing Director of Funding and Liquidity at a Canadian pension plan.
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*~*~*~* !! !! ALL WOMAN WILL BE SAVED!! !! *~*~*~*
POEMS FOR GOD is an award-winning, immersive, clown solo show! Join certified freak/ Toronto comedian, Victoria Watson Sepejak, as they attempt to save ALL WOMAN in just 60 minutes.
WINNER - “Fringe of the Fringe” - Orlando Fringe 2023
WINNER - “Best Solo Show” - Victoria Fringe 2023
This theatrical madhouse explores parenthood, death, and the existential gendered experience through dreamlike physical comedy and pure silliness. Emerging from Toronto’s premiere alternative comedy space Sweet Action Theatre. Co-devised and directed by award-winning Canadian/LA comedian Isaac Kessler. POEMS FOR GOD is “powerful, point-of-view stuff, delivered full throttle on the knife edge of humor and horror” (Orlando Sentinel).
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JOSHUA’S WITNESSES is an immersive clown solo show, which unearths all the dirty intel on the Jehovah’s Witness religion. Brother Joshua has been called for his trial at the judicial committee where you, the Elders of the Kingdom Hall, will judge if he should be exiled due to his transgressions.
Don’t miss this sexy, spellbinding physical comedy, crafted from real-life experience, from Toronto based comedian and ex-Jehovah's witness Joshua Bonnici. “It’s certainly one to check out if you’re down for a sexy, good time.” (Intermission Magazine)
Co-devised and directed by award winning artist and creator of Sweet Action Theatre, Gordon Neill (Canada’s Got Talent).
Orlando Fringe Bingo
When you buy tickets to 3 of the shows, you will get a free ticket to the 4th show.
IMPORTANT DETAILS:
Take a bingo card at the first show you see, and keep it for the rest of the Fringe
Get is signed at each show you see
Send an email to joshua@sweetaction.ca once you’ve seen your 3rd show with a picture of your bingo card, and we’ll put you on the comp list for the final show with the remaining timeslot of your choice
Request for free ticket must be sent at least 5 hours before showtime so that it can be processed
The show you are requesting a free ticket for must not have sold out.
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