Preview: Butt Kapinski, Wardrobe Theatre

From Tue, May 29 to Thur, May 31 the Wardrobe Theatre welcomes Butt Kapinski, New York comedy artist Deanna Fleysher’s film noir-ish murder-mystery comedy experience.

Private Eye Butt Kapinski invites you to co-star in a murder mystery set in a seedy world of sex, sin, shadows and subterfuge. An immersive, multi-award-winning comedy (including Best Comedy, Fringeworld 2017; Best Comedy, Adelaide Fringe 2016), for adults only.

BEST COMEDY Fringeworld 2017
INNOVATION AWARD Adelaide Fringe 2017
BEST COMEDY Adelaide Fringe 2016
SIX TIME BEST OF FEST WINNER

“A tour de force of character comedy and clowning.”
★★★★★ The Independent

“Fleysher’s performance is like no other: hilarious, yes, but she also manages to make everybody present want to be her best friend in this unique form of immersive theatre.”
★★★★★ Edinburgh Festivals Magazine

Here’s Deanna to tell us more.

So, where does the whole Butt Kapinski concept come from? 
Butt Kapinski is a whole lot of stuff. Film noir: the real stuff, the dirty, sleazy stuff, gloriously lit in semi-darkness. Slight gender dysphoria (misogynistic-societally-induced or organic, who can tell?). Trips to Burning Man Festival. Childhood speech impediments. Hunger to create with, and not at. Being a woman, being funny, and having that be weird. The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Private dicks.
I’ve been touring the show for several years and it is a consistent delight to bring it to new places and see how nicely it translates. I especially like working in England. Oddly, (as a Jewish American with precisely zero English roots) I feel most understood here.

What can the audience expect?
Do you really want to know? No, you don’t really want to know. Isn’t it always better when you don’t know that much? Isn’t it better when someone says, ‘hey, go do this thing’, and you are feeling free and ready for a thing you don’t know much about – and you do it, a testament to your own awesome sense of adventure. You are master of your domain. You buy a ticket for a thing. You see what unfolds.
You probably only want to know, will I be singled out and embarrassed, and won’t that suck? Right, naturally. But none of that will happen. We’ve all been to those shows, and we all hate those shows. I hate those shows most of all. I’ve come from a far away place – a dark and gun-slinging land – and I’m excited to be here and to make friends, not enemies. It is my business to make you comfortable and happy. People who hate “audience participation” love Butt Kapinski. It’s a different beast.
Let the rest of it be a surprise.

Butt Kapinski is at the Wardrobe Theatre from Tue, May 29 to Thur, May 31. For more info and to book tickets, visit thewardrobetheatre.com/livetheatre/butt-kapinski

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