CHEEEKS
WRITEN & PERFORMED BY LEE MINORA DIRECTED BY SCOTT SHEPPARD
COUSTUMES BY EMILIE KRAUSE
CHEEKS PREMIERED IN THE 2016 PHILADELPHIA FRINGE, WHERE IT WAS PRODUCED BY THE BERSERKER RESIDENTS. IN JAUARY 2017, CHEEKS WAS REMOUNTED AT GOOD GOOD COMEDY. IN THE SUMMER OF 2017 IT TOURED TO THE SCRANTON FRINGE FESTIVAL.
PART SWAN SONG.
PART SWAN ATTACK.
Lady Elizabeth Edwards has been making art in solitude. You are the first people she’s seen in a decade, and you are a complete
disappointment! This is Cheeks: a brutal clown show, that melds contemporary stand-up, bouffon clown and hands-on audience play. Laugh through your fear while this one-woman beast sucks the marrow from your funny bone all while taking on the tropes of our most revered female artists. No one is safe in this weapons-grade comedy, where everything is up for grabs – except her p*ssy!
Cheeks, written and performed by Philadelphia-based artist Lee Minora, makes its international debut at Silk with PBH Free Fringe. Cheeks is directed by Scott Sheppard. Sheppard is the co-creator of Underground Railroad Game, for which he won an OBIE award for Best New American Work.
"Imagine a production of The Belle of Amherst performed by 30 Rock’s Jenna Maroney, and you’ll have some idea of what “Cheeks” is like. Minora is marvelous, never slipping out of character and performing with a high level of commitment."
-Tim Dunleavy, DC Metro Arts