Lorenzo Pisoni was stunning as the major horse in the recent production of Equus. Now Manhattan Theater Club is presenting him in his one-man show, Humor Abuse, his life as a clown, starting at age 3, with his father in the Pickle Family Circus. So for over thirty years, this superb performer has been honing and perfecting his circus skills, which he tells us about and shows us in this captivating, marvelous show. He is handsome and charming, and his warm, unpretentious performance is dazzling in its complexity and his mastery of the genre.
Co-created with, and directed by, Erica Schmidt, Pisoni gently reveals a lifetime of clown-infusion so that whatever he does juggling, balancing, acrobatics, hat schtick, takes and double takes, and much more has the ease of virtuosity. They don't make better than this.
