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Circumference
Written and Performed by Amy Salloway
The only class Amy ever failed was gym...and she failed it every year. Now, decades later, what does it take for an aerobi-phobic "floating head" to turn into a real, kinetic body? From the creator of the touring Fringe Festival hits "Does This Monologue Make Me Look Fat?" and "So Kiss Me Already, Herschel Gertz!" comes this new solo comedy about size, sweat.and exercising your demons.
| "Salloway belongs to a rare and crafty class of clowns: she writes comedy as deftly and as perceptively as she performs it." - Cincinnati CityBeat. | |
| " A MUST-SEE: poignant, sensitive, and hysterically funny." -- St. Paul Pioneer Press | |
| "Underlying her monologues beats a pulse of universal humanity." - The Halifax Herald. | |
Circumference includes adult language and sexual situations; it is appropriate for ages 16 and up.
Circumference is the third solo show from Minneapolis-based actor, writer and storyteller Amy Salloway. The show continues Salloway's trademark explorations of the themes of body image, self-esteem and the beauty myth -- this time as seen through the experience of exercise.
"For a long time, I'd wanted to write a show that alternated my memories of junior high PE classes with the ups and downs of going to the gym as an adult," Salloway states, "and then, about two years ago, I went through the long and bizarre process of trying to get approved for gastric bypass surgery, and during that time I lived with this sense of the entire world, every moment of life , revolving around weight, size and the pursuit of physical attractiveness, and it was a wake-up call for me - a new realization of how profoundly I'm affected by my physical appearance. I had been a body image activist since college, but I suddenly realized that the dysfunctions I thought I'd at least PARTIALLY conquered went much deeper, were much more complex..and much more ugly."
Salloway chose to bring these experiences together, writing Circumference as two interwoven plotlines - the attempt to forge a physical self as a 12-year old amongst the indignities of seventh grade gym class, and the story of hitting body-image rock-bottom in adulthood and embarking on the desperate quest for a new, improved physical self via whatever extremes are necessary.and what happens when the results don't turn out quite as planned.
