The Cultch | Vancouver East Cultural Centre
2009-2010: 35th Anniversary Season: Contemporary Theatre, Dance and Music

Mump & Smoot in Something (Toronto)

   

 

“Mump & Smoot are a national treasure” – Edmonton Sun

“Mump and Smoot are the latest wrinkle on the existential fall-guy, the Everymen buddy-buddies alone at the edge of the world. With their horned caps, bulbous noses and pancake eye masks, however, they are closer to big-tent Laurel and Hardy than new-age Vladimir and Estragons...” - New York Newsday

You can celebrate with famed Canadian clown duo Mump & Smoot when they return to The Cultch with Something—the hit show that put them on the map! Last delighting Vancouver audiences in 1994, Mump & Smoot return with a rare revival of the show that started it all. In Something, we find the intrepid duo prancing through the etiquette of a fine cafe, the sorrow and despair of a wake, and the pandemonium of the doctor’s office.
 
Mump & Smoot, also referred to as clowns of horror, inhabit a parallel universe called Ummo, worship a god named Ummo, and speak their own brand of gibberish, Ummonian. Enter a giddy, scary world of pure imagination, as the duo turns conventional clowning on its head in this darkly humourous work that ranges from zany to macabre. Not for children!

Around the web:
Mump & Smoot official website