Only the desperate turn to stand-up, and Eliza Bent is no exception. Watch this former downtown experimental New York theatre scene (RIP) mainstay—that Time Out New York once described as “immensely likeable”—step into and “stand up” inside a new medium. Bent, who now lives an anonymous life in an American province, knows first-hand that comedy is tragedy plus time.
Penguin in Your Ear, directed by the legendary Jess Barbagallo (who is no stranger to lukewarm descriptors), will feature Bent’s classic stew of jokes, puns, uncanny accents, philosophical stories plus anecdotes that go absolutely nowhere about new chapters, academia, relationship status, family, IBS and America’s favorite narrative: second acts.
Presented by The Brick in repertory with Looming Dogs by David Perez, directed by William Burke.
