Lucky and Pozzo at Buskerfest

posted by R Winsome

We got back to Buskerfest, Kate dug through some trash, tried to climb a building, went "home" (sitting in an alley) Then we swapped out for Tim and all kinds of danger, violence, sex, and poetry. this outing had it all.

Highlights:
- climbing a building (tim got his fingers over the top of the building, but couldn't get any further, fell into a dumpster on his way back down.)

- Wrestle this guy (the guy was some kind of wrestling man. He promptly pinned Tim in the doorway of Nomad- where else would we get such a request? The bouncer came out and broke it up, the guy foolishly turned his back on Lucky, who then pounced to the great delight of the crowd. He pulled the guy down on top of him, the bouncer yelled some more and we broke it up. The guy came to shake my hand and tell me how stupid we were for taking his friend's ten dollars)

- the bachelorettes. We encountered a bachelorette party and helped them cross off $5 worth of their list, including: a lap dance, tie removal and replacement, plucking a chest hair, exposing his treasure trail, and some other thing.

- Drink some of my tequila, not a lot, well, as much as you want. Tim filled his mouth full and swallowed it.

- Draw pictures. Tim rendered the scene (outside a street vendor selling CDs) beautifully, in sharpie on scrap paper.

- the moon walk. (Tim gave them Neil Armstrong until they complained enough for Michael Jackson, and he gave them a bit of that)

- "crank that" (some ass wanted Tim to sing a chachi song by someone named soldier boy. Not knowing the words, Tim improvised it. The guy followed us for the next half hour attempting to discourage customers.)

- a couple asked tim to think, which he did, from memory, and i provided them with the text so they could read along. Then got them to pay me another dollar to make him shut up.

- Switch roles. Someone asked if I ever play lucky and i suggested she ask us to, for a dollar. We stripped to out skivvies and I got to have some Lucky action, which i think i may regret if i ever decide i want to have children.

- back at Nomad, everyone wanted to see me hurt. Twice i had to chase a poorly thrown football into traffic, i had to break dance, then do the fish, which on concrete is less than comfortable, then let a kid throw the football at my stomach, and then an adult (since the kid's dad wouldn't let him) threw it at my crotch, even though i stared at him as piteously as i could, then i did push ups with the kid sitting on my back. I was told to do shakespheare but i couldn't get out more than two lines of the sonnet i had memorized only a few weeks ago. Oh well.

Lucky and Pozzo at the Artwalk

posted by R Winsome.

Bad times. We had a gap in buskerfest between 3 and 5. Kate and I traveled to Riverwest, suited up and started trying to get the artwalkers.

Unfortunately, there seemed to be sparse attendance at that time, in the places we went. Center street, down to the co-op, over to bremen, and then back up to center. Most of the people we encountered didn't seem to know the artwalk was happening, so we were just a couple freaks wandering through a residential area.

Scared some people, ran into some kids who hate art. They made Kate jerk off in the general direction of some old ladies, didn't do much else that's memorable. Then we headed back to brady street to get a head start on busking there.

We did a bit more and then Tim showed up.

Rex Winsome Explains Everything

posted by R Winsome

On Oct 6 We did two actions on Brady street in association with Milwaukee Public Theatre and Buskerfest. First, we did a new peice, in which Rex Winsome explains everything.

I wrote the outline of a two hour rant where i cover, from the abstract to the specific, my views on why i do everything and anything i do. Then i rehearsed it a little over the course of the week, both in writing and out loud while doing dishes or riding the bus, then i stood on a soap box on bready street with a hat and a sign and recited the rant.

it went really well, talked about billy goats when some kids got bored, then their parents got bored when i got to billy goat capitalism. Politicians, dog walkers, families, artists all stopped and listened, a few bitter old hippies tried to argue with me, a sociology student took issue with half what what i was saying and i recorded the whole thing, i'll try and get an audio sample up on the website sometime.

here's the outline:
KNOWLEDGE
limits to understanding
limits to expression in language
scientific knowledge (superior)
religious knowledge (superfluous)
what is science not doing yet?

EXISTENTIALISM
cogito ergo sum + free will
utility- self determined values
defined by actions
intentionality + responsibility

OTHERS
basic needs
necessity of others
maleability of others

SOCIAL STRUCTURES
historical development
anarchy - government

GOVERNMENT
progress toward dissolution
amoral
efficient
utilitarianism

ECONOMICS
as understructure of society and gov't
historical development
capitalism
capitalism requires gov't
capitalism must be abolished

REVOLUTION
defined - violence?
historical example- feudalism to capitalism
preconditions of a revolution
1. obsolete old system
2. new system
-classes
-basic relationship
-products
3. new technologies
4. old legalities

CURRENT SITUATION
preconditions are met
1. capitalist excesses
2. creative class, art as mode of production, arts+entertainment as new product
3. internet
4. copyright laws

PRAXIS
start in developed capitalist country
gain control of a rising power, ride the rise
theatre, MKE,

HUMAN INTERACTION
globally - citizen not consumer
directly- overtly selfish, use-value, honesty, emotional
responsiblity, challenging not coddling

Tomato Carnage!

Here's a little eye candy for ya.

And the rest can be found here:

Shakespeare with Tomatoes

Saturday 9/22: Shakesphere, with Tomatoes

posted by R Winsome

Dinner Theatre and Shakespheare are two pretty unlikely areas for Insurgent Theatre to get into, but we'll always rise to whatever challenge presented to us. When Renee, the organizer of this event asked us to come up with a street theatre performance about tomatoes, we quickly brainstormed the following: a cafe where the theatre is on the menu and the food is thrown at the actors. We put the deadliest theatre we could think of (Shakespheare) on the menu and got messy.

It went amazingly well, some lucky breaks, tons of press, and only a few assholes who thought the point of the thing was to throw the tomatoes as hard as possible at our faces and hurt us.

Good times! Keep an eye out for pics, video of the channel 4 coverage (if we can find it) and other links.

doesn't typically truck in such things, but, thisweekend, we're combining all three.Come to the east side for a tomato themed street festival and have anopportunity to experience Insurgent's detourned approach toShakespearean dinner theatre, where the theatre is on the menu and thefood is thrown at the stage.This Saturday, Sept 22nd, The Tomato Romp! On North Ave betweenOakland and Prospect. Fest starts at ten and ends at 4, we'reperforming between noon and 3.

Tuesday 8/14: Missoula Oblongata Show

posted by R Winsome.

We weren't able to perform for The Missoula Oblongata while in MN, due to them seeing good plays (something called fanulanu) while we were watching the deadliest theatre i've ever seen (McBeth's Scottish Castle Party) So, we promised we'd come out and perform before their show here.

So we did. There weren't many people around, and we didn't get any very unusual requests, but Tim got to think and to sing, and the Missoula people seemed impressed. We also ran into this guy who paid $1 for us to pose for a picture, which he was then going to upload to his website at http://www.milwaukeerenaissance.com/. either he didn't do it, or that site is too much of a sprawling wiki-mess for me to find ANYTHING on it. Oh well.

Then we saw The Most Mysterious Day of the Year, loved it, and didn't want to perform anymore (cuz we'd been cooked well-done during the show).

8/11 Lucky & Pozzo Take Minneapolis

Check it. Attending Fring Fest in the beautiful, venue strewn city of Minneapolis, Lucky & Pozzo made some gas money entertaining a new crowd. It was hotter than levitating lipstick lesbians making love in lucid doorways, but we persevered.

Here's some pics: