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Written and Performed by Aaron Cromie
Capital Fringe Festival, Washington, DC, July 2006
He is lazy, overweight and unattractive. Bawdy and brash. Rude. And in spite of it -- nay, because of it -- he is funny. Meet Pulcinella, the slow-moving-but-fast-talking character from 17th-century Italian commedia dell'arte. Think Rodney Dangerfield in Harlequin drag. Punch's Progress: A Pulcinella Story, is a one-man show comprised of burlesque skits tracing Pulcinella's influence on comedy from British Punch & Judy-style puppetry to vaudeville, ventriloquism to modern stand-up. There are masks, puppets -- and a lot of dirty jokes. – The Washington Post
Supported by a grant from the Philadelphia Theatre Initiative and a project grant from the Jim Henson foundation
Photo by Robin Marcotte
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