NAKAI PRESENTS

LARRY

Thursday - Saturday January 29-February 1, 2025 7pm.

Conceived, Written and Performed by: Candy Roberts
Director, Dramaturge, and Clown Coach: Sonia Norris
Additional Clown Coaching: Deanna Fleysher

60 minutes

18+ recommended, Nudity, Language, Strobe, Haze, Alcohol

LARRY Biographies

Candy Roberts – Writer and Performer

Candy Roberts is a Canadian Performance artist and fifth-generation European-Canadian settler based in unceded Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), Səlílwətaɬ(Tsleil-Waututh), and xwməθkwəyəm (Musqueam) territories, also known as Vancouver. Her original works encompass physical theatre, music, and clown to investigate the humor and heartbreak of our social and human conditions. She is a somatic practitioner and an avid researcher of CREATIVITY, and the connections between self-expression, mental health, and community. Candy tours internationally with her award-winning solo show; LARRY, a “daring, provocative and hilarious” gender-bending feminist comedy. She is also the artistic director of CANDY BONES THEATRE which devises and tours innovative, immersive, and original theatre for young audiences. Watch out for Ideas Bobert, a ridiculous family comedy in the likes of Charlie Chaplin and OOPSIE, a physical comedy about the ART OF FAILURE!

Sonia Norris – Director, Dramaturge, and Clown Coach

Sonia Norris is a Canadian, LA-based physical theatre director specializing in the development of new work with theatre, circus, clown, mask, and puppetry companies. Sonia trained in physical theatre at Ecole Jacques Lecoq in France, Ecole Philippe Gaulier in England, and the Dell’Arte School of Physical Theatre in California. She is a graduate of the Playhouse Acting School in Canada and holds an MFA in Directing from York University. Currently, she is an Assistant Professor/Head of Acting in the Theatre Department at California State University Northridge. sonianorris.wordpress.com

Award-winning Canadian Clown Artist Candy Roberts assumes her alter ego in this daring and comedic piece about one dude’s hilarious attempt at self-improvement. With rock and roll, a little life-coaching, and a dip into his own psyche, LARRY uncovers a little more than anyone expected. Culled lovingly from the male archetypes that surrounded her during her upbringing, LARRY helps Candy compassionately examine the limitations of the gender binary, aging as a woman in society, and the complexities of being human. This show is for anyone who is, or knows a woman. Gear-down Big-Rig, you just might bust a gut and shed a tear!