Embarrassment & Death

Growing up proves trickier than Ozzie and Harriet let on for a kid navigating the ambushes of his daily life. Thirty-five naked five-year-olds face their first Swimming Lesson at the YWCA; the class trip discovers How Things Work at the slaughterhouse, and the perpetual neighborhood baseball game gets called on account of the falling Fighter Pilot. This comic monologue calls up the everyday and the fantastic from a Midwestern boyhood.

Embarrassment & Death is presented as part of the 2007 San Francisco Fringe Festival.