Adrienne Truscott, returns to Joe’s Pub with a new show, Adrienne Truscott’s A One-Trick Pony for three shows through this summer and early Fall – June 27th, August 4th and September 23rd. Coming off 3 years touring her multi-award-winning Adrienne Truscott’s Asking For It a simultaneously sobering and hilarious comedy about rape, rape culture and rape jokes – wherein she didn’t wear any pants – Truscott is happy not to talk about rape for a while. But the show left her with the question, of course, what next? Is she a one-hit wonder? A comedian or a feminist performance artist? How do you follow up a show like that? Do you take more clothes off or put some on?
Her new show, Adrienne Truscott’s A One-Trick Pony (Or Andy Kaufmann Is A Feminist Performance Artist and I’m A Comedian!) plums the joys and perils of mixing feminist performance art with stand up comedy. Bringing quirky ‘high brow’ performance roots to the low-down art of stand up comedy Truscott lets Kaufman’s legacy guide her along that edge. She wrestles with standing up while telling jokes, the impossibility of ‘second shows’, irony, trolls and stealing ‘material’. What if instead of making the follow-up show critics wanted her to make, she just made the show she wanted to make? Grappling hilariously with the art of being true to herself, while paying homage to one of comedy’s greats, she literally wrestles the audience’s expectations to the mat. She’s found (stolen?) the perfect material but can she make it her own by curtains? One-Trick Pony or horse’s ass? Who cares?! Giddy up, she’s naked, funny and wants to wrestle.
Tickets and additional information are available here.