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Mayhem Moon with the Mayhem Sisters Salley May and Nancy May Perry

Mayhem Moon with the Mayhem Sisters Salley May and Nancy May Perry

October 5, 2017 @ 4:00 pm - 4:30 pm

Venue
Howl! Happening
6 East 1st Street
New York City, NY 10003 + Google Map

A Tom Murrin/Alien Comic Invention
Every Month on the Full Moon
At 4pm sharp

You know that dream? The one where you’re on a prison planet and the inmates only know one joke. The one where an ICE agent, a doctor, and a scary clown walk into a bar and the bartender says, “Why the long shadow?” Then come the birds. They’re crashing against the windows. You open the window to let them out. They fly free. You try to follow them, but the bars are too close together. And you’re locked out.

The Mayhem Moon will punch that dream in the face. Insiders will be exiled, inmates will take office, jesters will ascend to the throne. From the luminous minds of the MAYHEM sisters, Salley May and Nancy May Perry, comes this skeleton key to the locks that keep you in and out, featuring performances by Annie Lanzillotto, Aru Hangar, Simba Yangala, Ninafrika Kameroruskova, Victoria Kernmayer, Tony Stinkmetal and Salley May.

or a Harvest Moon of Mayhem and Madness!

Suggested attire: Horizontal Prison Stripes, Fall 2017 Hospital Runway Gowns, Alien 3 Jumpsuit Realness, Tippi Hedren Bird-hats, Giant Jangling Key Rings, Hobo Bindles, Auditory Hallucinations, Westwood Straitjackets, Lagerfeld Guard Uniforms, Carrier Pigeons.

About Tom Murrin and the Full Moon Show

Howl! Happening houses the archives of Tom Murrin. Murrin, aka the Alien Comic, is known as the Godfather of Performance Art. Every full moon, Tom performed the Full Moon Show in honor of his moon goddess, Luna Macaroona. When he had a club date that fell on the full moon, he’d wrangle his friends to perform as his guests—pushing the careers of such groundbreaking performers as David Cale, David Sedaris, Amy Sedaris, Blue Man Group, Ethyl Eichelberger, Lisa Kron and many others. If not, he performed on the street for passersby, transforming the pedestrian atmosphere with his madness and magic. Howl! Happening’s monthly series continues that tradition, with performances in the gallery and surprise pop up performances on the street.

About The Tom Murrin Archive

Howl! Happening is the repository of the Tom Murrin Archive comprising masks, costumes, scripts, correspondence, photographs, and tapes of performances going back to the early 70s. Murrin (February 8, 1939 – March 12, 2012) also known as The Alien Comic and Jack Bump, was a performance pioneer whose life and work inspired both artists and audiences for over 40 years. He was a member of the first generation of La MaMa playwrights. Tom wrote four plays performed through La MaMa and produced by John Vacarro’s Play-House of the Ridiculous, including the offbeat hit, Cock Strong, which toured with Ellen Stewart’s La MaMa Troupe to Paris, Amsterdam and Brussels.

Under the guidance of rock manager Jane Friedman, Tom began to perform under the name Alien Comic, opening for acclaimed punk bands in rock clubs such as CBGBs and Max’s Kansas City. As Alien Comic he performed in such venues as The Pyramid, 8BC, King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut, Performance Space 122, Dixon Place, La MaMa, and more. Since the mid 80s, he’s created, performed, and curated a series of variety nights at Performance Space 122, and La Mama Experimental Theatre Club and Dixon Place, called The Full Moon Show. His plays Sport-Fuckers and Butt-Crack Bingo were produced at Theater for the New City and La MaMa and directed by David Levine. Tom was the first performance artist to appear on stage at the original Dixon Place location at 37 East First Street in 1986.

Phone
917.475.1294
Website
howlarts.org
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