Limited Engagement!
Masterclass
Brokentalkers & Adrienne Truscott
Thursday, April 3 at 7:30 pm
Friday, April 4 at 7:30 pm
Saturday, April 5 at 2 and 7:30 pm
Sunday, April 6 at 3 pm
at the Fisher Center at Bard College, 60 Manor Avenue, Red Hook, NY
Blending together Adrienne Truscott (Spiegeltent at Bard emcee, Wild Bore, Asking For It, The Wau Wau Sisters)’s genre-straddling work and savagely comedic discourse on gender with internationally renowned theatre company Brokentalkers’ (The Examination, Have I No Mouth, The Blue Boy) formally slippery dramaturgy, the award-winning Masterclass is a parody like no other—uncovering excruciating truths about privilege, gender, and power.
Taking shape as an interview, Masterclass doesn’t hold back. Performed by ‘fed-up feminist’ Adrienne Truscott and ‘all-around good guy’ Feidlim Cannon, Masterclass begins as a cockamamie masterclass between two familiar archetypes—the self-mythologizing male artist (Truscott) and a sycophantic interviewer (Cannon). It’s fun. It’s familiar. There are wigs. But there is something more at play.
This wickedly funny take-down of the macho artist has been performed to critical acclaim across the world, including the Sydney Opera House, Sydney Festival, RISING Melbourne, Southbank Centre London, Brighton Festival, Teatro do Bairro Alto Lisbon, and many more. Now it’s New York’s turn!
Postshow Talk – Sunday, April 6
Join us for a postshow discussion with Feidlim Cannon and Adrienne Truscott (the writers and creators of Masterclass) in conversation with Gideon Lester (Artistic Director, Fisher Center).
ASL-Interpreted Performance & Postshow Talk
The Sunday, April 6 performance of Masterclass—as well as the postshow talk—will be ASL-interpreted.
For more information, please contact the Box Office by phone at 845-758-7900 or via email at boxoffice@bard.edu.
Creative Team
Written & Created by: Feidlim Cannon, Gary Keegan, Adrienne Truscott
Movement Director: Eddie Kay
Creative Producer: Rachel Bergin
Costume Design: Sarah Foley
Lighting Design: Dara Hoban
Set Design: Ellen Kirk
Sound Design: Jennifer O’Malley
Partners & Co-Producers
Masterclass is created with funding from Arts Council of Ireland and is a co-production with Project Arts Centre, Mermaid Arts Centre, and Dublin Fringe Festival. International Touring is kindly supported by Culture Ireland.
Masterclass premiered at Project Arts Centre as part of Dublin Fringe Festival 2021.
Brokentalkers
are a multi-award-winning Dublin-based theatre company. For over a decade, Brokentalkers have been making formally ambitious work that defies categorization and have built a reputation as one of Ireland’s most innovative and original theatre companies. They make work that responds to the contemporary world, using elements such as original writing, dance, classic texts, film, interviews, found materials, and music to represent that world in performance.
Adrienne Truscott
Adrienne Truscott’s work crosses lines and methodologies from dance, theatre, comedy and performance art; these iterations appear as drag club acts as well as evening-length pieces; dances to one-lady plays; group pieces to solos. Recent pieces include THIS and Wild Bore. She is one half of The Wau Wau Sisters, a boundary-busting cabaret & circus collaboration that has been laying stages to waste for 20 years, and her critically acclaimed Adrienne Truscott’s Asking For It: A One-Lady Rape About Comedy Starring Her Pussy and Little Else continues to tour (as both a solo and an expanded group show). This show is considered a critical impetus to the evolving discourse about intersections of rape culture, gender, and comedy.