PENNY - a Joshua Tree crash landing
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This will broadcasted LIVE and direct from Joshua Tree at Bobby Furst’s with Penny there!
This hilarious and heartfelt multimedia performance juxtaposes physical pratfalls with seriousness, absurdities with sincerity, and pathos with humor.
Penny is a one-person performance that is written, produced, filmed, and performed by artist Kelly Nesbitt. Kelly first debuted at Furstwurld back in 2017 as part of the Dr Tallulah Vaginal Consciousness Tour (VAGCON™).
This performance/film features Penny on the stage, on the screen, socially distanced, and broadcasted live from Furstworld. Penny debuts her world premiere short film composed of a mash-up of homemade, absurd, non-linear, low-budget videos highlighting the inner workings of their clown mind. Grab your popcorn!
Penny is a conduit who speaks to this American moment by expressing our collective grief and despair, yet exemplifies the unquenchable hope that lies deeper in the human heart. Healing is an overt theme of the work, as exemplified by Penny’s awkward yet earnest commitment to meditation, nature worship, and conversations with a radically different kind of deity.
The film utilizes experimental sound design, lowbrow video editing techniques, and DIY aesthetics for comedic effect. The film was made on an iPhone, iPad, and iMovie. Pop references are made to honor the late Gil Scott Heron, Fred Rogers, The Muppets, Alan Watts, and Roberta Flack.
We witness Penny’s subversive homage to Conan The Barbarian through reenacted battle scenes that mock the relentless phallic imagery dispersed throughout the original 1982 film. Penny’s umbrella can be a dick too! We then switch to Penny seeking advice from META PENNY™, an elder genderless alter-ego, time-traveling queerdo.
Even in relative isolation, Penny taps into cultural themes of loneliness, class disparity, contradictory values, and unprecedented U.S. instability, illuminating everyday magical wonders while lamenting the catch-22 bind of being human: “No one said it was going to be easy!” ~ Penny
In collaboration with FURSTWURLD ~ PENNY will be lifted to new levels! We will be broadcasting LIVE from FURSTWURLD, in JOSHUA TREE on TUESDAY NOV 17th. Save the date!
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