If You Don’t Have Arms You Cannot Surrender
Theatre Corps
Chicago’s 1st ever Clown Theater festival. ?There are some amazing moments in the Theatre Corps’ two-person show If You Don’t Have Arms, You Cannot Surrender, especially when Rachel Klem and Kelley Ogden engage in the kind of gross-out humor women were once believed incapable of.
Chicago’s 1st ever Clown Theater festival. ?There are some amazing moments in the Theatre Corps’ two-person show If You Don’t Have Arms, You Cannot Surrender, especially when Rachel Klem and Kelley Ogden engage in the kind of gross-out humor women were once believed incapable of. In this dark comedy about two revolutionaries locked up in a prison, one of them squats and pees all over the floor. Then the other spitefully reveals the trick: the first clown has a bottle under her dress.
By the show’s end, all theatrical illusions have been destroyed. But If You Don’t Have Arms could use trimming: less than an hour, it still feels a good quarter hour too long.? Jack Helbig, Chicago Reader April 6, 2001