Caligula Maximus
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SHOW INFORMATION
Opened Mar 19, 2010
Closed Apr 17, 2010
Visit the Caligula Maximus website:
http://www.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/715425
WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
Caligula Maximus takes place on the last night of the notorious dictator's life, in his palace where he is stage managing, directing, and starring in one of his famous "entertainments" which test the limits of human intellect and appetite. Caligula, sensing the encroachment of monotheistic religions (Christianity and Judaism) holds a phantasmagoric revival meeting in which he attempts to save the world by ushering in a new religion with himself as its principle prophet and god. Caligula's "senate" is an outrageous collection of circus performers, wrestlers, animals, show girls and freaks who enact his spectacles and indulge his whims and fantasies. As the revival meeting reaches fever pitch, his troupe grows weary of being used as toys, gains a sense of their own power and, bedecked in the war paint and leather costumes of barbarian invaders, descend upon him and murder him in mob frenzy. Expect circus, music, dance, rhetoric, and the unexpected.
WHAT ARE CRITICS SAYING?
What are other members saying?
RE:wow
Its a great show with so much going on. A stilt walker, trapeze artist. songs, dancers. Ryan does a great job as Caligula as does the rest of the fine cast. A good time was had by all.
Reviewed by UPTOWNBILL
on Thursday, Mar 18th, 2010
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Free beer and porn magazines are given out as you enter La MaMa's Ellen Stewart Theatre to see Caligula Maximus, Alfred Preisser and Randy Weiner's raunchy circus extravaganza about the infamous Roman emperor. But while the show strives to create a party-like atmosphere, it pushes too hard for the effort to be completely successful.
A ringmaster by the name of Helicon (JerZ Short) welcomes the crowd, but it's soon made clear that he's not the one running the show. That honor belongs to Caligula (Ryan Knowles), who enters riding a giant golden phallus and takes control of the stage. Knowles has a dynamic presence, and an appropriately seedy charisma. He also has a deep baritone, which he ut[...]