Weburlesque

Anna Monoxide is a New York show producer, theatrical clown, circus sideshow performer, and accordion player. She is one of the mad masterminds behind Disasterpiece Theater at the Deep End. c/w: we talk a bit about Anna's use of her own real blood in her work if that's not your thing. topics: accordion at 8, Coney Island, pin cushion talents, freaking people out, making you feel, safety, a week later when all your wounds have healed, needles and daggers, Pagliacci, the beginning of a Disasterpiece, beautiful and disturbing, as one does, clown college, pointy teeth, trippy burlesque, an evening at the Theater, Precious Roy's Cannibal Cookbook, show bible ... Anna talks about the performer who would pierce himself with fencing foils; she speaks of Mirin Dajo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirin_Dajo; also learn more about the history of Human Pin Cushion (a tad graphic): https://www.sideshowworld.com/104-Human-Pin/Cushion.html ... recorded: November 18, 2019 ... shoutouts and acknowledgments: Fibi Eyewal