Sad Boys in Harpy Land

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.