Wicked Clown Love, which recently completed a sold-out run in its world premiere at the Kitchen in New York City, is a new work from performance artist Neal Medlyn. The sixth in Medlyn's ongoing pop star series, Wicked Clown Love is built around the music and culture of hip-hop duo Insane Clown Posse, their devoted fan base the Juggalos, and other forms of male bonding and ritual. Starring Medlyn, Carmine Covelli, Farris Craddock and others, the piece features design by Madeline Best (lighting), Kathleen Hanna (set) and Larry Krone (costumes). Wicked Clown Love is Neal Medlyn's dark specter version of the Insane Clown Posse (ICP) world, incorporating influences ranging from the writings of Mythopoetic Men's Movement figure Robert Bly, especially his popular book Iron John: A Book About Men and his analysis of Grimm's fairy tales, to visual design elements that reference dollar store displays, haunted houses, and the TV show COPS. In addition to their infamous clown face pain! ting and the Juggalos, ICP is known for a type of Midwestern, underground, hardcore rap laced with horror film references called horrorcore. Medlyn's show will feature rap and spoken word, terror and horror, male bonding activities like flashlight wrestling, Faygo showers, clown love and more. Neal Medlyn is a performance artist who has been creating a series of pop star/music-based performance pieces over the last several years in New York and on tour in the US and Europe. There have been five
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