There already was the potential for clowns being a bit sinister before Michael Kennard and John Turner became Mump & Smoot. Their gibberish-talking creations have a reputation for making people laugh about some of lifes more macabre moments. In Something, their three-part show at The Cultch, they revive the skits that started them off back in 1989. The shows not for the squeamish. Or for children. Referring to themselves as clowns of horror, in this show they try to revive a dead friend at a wake, enter the pandemonium of a doctors office and get snubbed by a snotty waiter at a fine café.
Their distinctive style of clowning finds its roots deep within their work with Canadian clown master Richard Pochinko, with whom they worked extensively for the last two years of his life.
Until June 2 at The Cultch
Tickets from $17 at
604-251-1363 or tickets.thecultch.com
