Alex Tatarsky

Equal parts sad clown, demented cabaret, and crisis of meaning, Sad Boys in Harpy Land confronts anguish through humor, artmaking, and despair. In this unhinged solo performance, self-proclaimed “experimental clown artist” Alex Tatarsky ushers audiences through an absurdist hellscape of the mind. Sad Boys in Harpy Land confronts anguish through humor in a spiraling narrative of artmaking and despair. Through a series of existential vignettes, Tatarsky fuses autobiographical bones of their own story onto those of equally tormented protagonists from sources including Goethe, Dante, Amiri Baraka, Helen Adams, and Seinfeld. A coming-apart coming-of-age story, Tatarsky presents a highly calibrated mess in a tour-de-farce performance that challenges the idea of individual malady, and instead embraces the turbulent maze of shared struggle. Photo Credit: Maria Baranova About the Artist Featured Alex Tatarsky Read more → CREDITS Alex Tatarsky | Writer & Performer Shane Riley | Live Music & Sound Design Iris McCloughan | Director Andreea Mincic | Costumes, Props, Scenic Design Masha Tsimring | Lighting Design Payton Smith | Stage Manager Basie Allen, Lisa Fagan | Dramaturgy Developed with Eva Steinmentz Tommy Kriegsmann | Manager Sad Boys in Harpy Land was commissioned by Abrons Arts Center through the Jerome Foundation AIRspace Residency Program. Playwrights Horizons, Inc, in New York City produced the NYC Off Broadway Premiere of Sad Boys in Harpy Land in 2023. Sad Boys in Harpy Land received development support through residencies at FringeArts, the Jilline Ringle Solo Performance Program at 1812 Productions, Movement Research, MAAS, and Poetry Electric at La Mama ETC. Honorary producer for the On the Boards presentation: John C. Robinson and Maya Sonenberg. The presentation at On the Boards is supported in part by Creative West which receives support in part from the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency. Sad Boys in Harpy Land November…