Combining the traditions of Vaudeville, Stand Up, Dramatic Theatre, Dance and Performance Art, Amusing Lies and Lullabies will be a production of varied interwoven one-woman segments and ensemble pieces with frequent incorporation of music, sometimes live, and projection. While each of these talented women are accustomed to performing across these traditions, each of these four also has a special niche that stands out like a powerhouse, engaging the audience in a new way from the beginning of the show until the end.  Long time admirers of each other’s work, collaboration presented a unique opportunity to take a multi-faceted look at the female experience.  A.L.L. addresses vulnerable, but powerful subjects through comedy, character pieces, poetry, video, music, and dance.  It’s a visceral and thrilling ride filled with intensity, intention, interaction and IT! 

In her examination of different states of being, Penny Pollak takes you on a humorous and provocative journey through the mind of a strange little girl in a very strange world to watch her excursion into adulthood, where the definitions of neurotic, manic-depressive, insomniac, alcoholic, and masochist get a little blurry. Get ready to dive into a scary world that feels oddly warm and inviting as she examines self-imposed destruction through delightfully surprising absurdity and wit.

Natalie Underwood's vibrant and emotional characters walk the tight-rope between strength and fragility, creation and destruction, ignorance and choice. Through several pieces running the gamut of interpretive dance and dramatic monologue she connects in a very beautiful and personal way, leaving the audience with a full-bodied resonance of feeling and thought that often has the hair on the backs of their necks standing up.  Dr. Marsha will be presenting her two lecture pieces:  "Evolutionary Psychology as Interpreted by Someone with a Vagina," and "Men and The Things I Know About Them. "        

"Gosh, I mean you just never know with Killy (Kelly B. Dwyer) she's...um, well she's somebody or something...er, uh - different every time I see her!  It's a little confusing and so exciting that sometimes I forget she's a real person at all.  First she's falling all over the place seemingly embarrassing herself and then she's singing an amazing opera from an Oprah magizine and then she's making me giggle and feel incredibly uncomfortable with some weird dance to a song about how she turned me gay.  I'm so gay for her.  She's my hero."                                                                                      -George W. Bush 

The Cast

Dr. Marsha (Marsha Brown), with her Armchair Doctorate of Evolutionary Psychology, has spent 20 years training in the performance arts and traveling across the country disguised as a vagabond/hussy with her keen analytical eye on the human behavior displayed before her.  Known as the Dian Fossey of Dude Nation, having earned her credentials at keggers and hangouts nationwide,

Kelly "Killy" Dwyer, the “Fonzie-Marilyn Monroe of Comedy,” is a sexy clown flower that grew out of a flower-bed of experience in Opera, Dance, Improv, Stand-Up, Theater, Sketch, Music and Potty Training. She (bats her eyelashes, sighs, clears her throat) is a Comedic Performance Artist!  Emphasis on all 3 words!   (Dances around triumphantly.) Honing her skills by hosting her own variety show for the last year, living on the edge and doing theater on the fringe, the audience will relish each refreshing play-date.  She is firecracker, a delicious cocktail of surprise, exuberance, and absolute hilarity.

As Alabaster Rumb sings, the innocent are scarred in the witnessing; victims of the spectacle. A victim myself, I was just minding my own business unaware that alabaster, who I did not even know existed, had been plotting to crawl from my stomach (where he had been living all along) and into the world with a song in his exposed heart. I tried very hard (after the initial shock) to talk him out of singing, especially in public, but he could not be dissuaded explaining that what he wanted more than even freedom from my hellish bowels, was to share his songs with the world. So I relented and he sings and people scream and runaway and cuss me for not knowing that such a thing had been growing inside me and for not killing it after I puked it up and it said hello and then started singing. But I didn’t and there is nothing I can do as alabaster has become very sad and bitter and resentful of his place in the universe especially in consideration of being inside out and has run away…