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Cracked Ice, or Jewels of the Forbidden Skates (2009)
  • Title: Cracked Ice, or Jewels of the Forbidden Skates
  • Holdings: video
  • Language: English
  • Date: May 2009
  • Location: Performance Space 122, New York City
  • Type-Format: performance
  • Cast: CIrcus Amok Cast and Band
  • Credits: Circus Amok

Cracked Ice, or Jewels of the Forbidden Skates (2009)

In Circus Amok's "Cracked Ice, or Jewels of the Forbidden Skates", written by Jennifer Miller and Deb Margolin and commissioned with Performance Space 122's Ethyl Eichelberger Award (2009), the Liberty Sisters of the Rhinestone Cabaret have been victimized by that scoundrel Bernie Madoff. They want their money back—or at least revenge—and their quest ropes in Madoff's sons, the Wau Wau Sisters. With wild and irreverent combinations of juggling and George W. Bush jokes, mistaken identities and manic choreography, accordion music and nudity, the cabaret-style circus show is an anti-capitalist celebration of freakery and a return to Amok's roots at P.S. 122.

This video is not in HIDVL, but you can see documentation from a May 2009 performance on YouTube (below).


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