Big Time Toppers

by Patrick Vermillion

After a new juggling trick goes horrifically awry, aspiring professional clowns Harlow and Stubs must find a way to treat the severe wounds they’ve accidentally inflicted on each other before the most important audition of their fledgling careers. A farcical comedy about making that money no matter what it takes! Even if there's a tornado.

After a new juggling trick goes horrifically awry, aspiring professional clowns Harlow and Stubs must find a way to treat the severe wounds they’ve accidentally inflicted on each other before the most important audition of their fledgling careers. A farcical comedy about making that money no matter what it takes! Even if there's a tornado.

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  • Rob Silverman Ascher: Big Time Toppers by Patrick Vermillion
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    So funny, so horrifying, so true! Existing at the nexus of social realism and clowny absurdism, BIG TIME TOPPERS investigates the degradation of gig work and the artistic dreams that suffer as a result. Also, tons of knives.

    So funny, so horrifying, so true! Existing at the nexus of social realism and clowny absurdism, BIG TIME TOPPERS investigates the degradation of gig work and the artistic dreams that suffer as a result. Also, tons of knives.

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  • Annika Andersson: Big Time Toppers by Patrick Vermillion
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    Farce that makes you laugh and then question WHY you were laughing. Very engaging from beginning to end and illustrates the wild rollercoaster of "having a dream" in a way that is new and terrifyingly wonderful.

    Farce that makes you laugh and then question WHY you were laughing. Very engaging from beginning to end and illustrates the wild rollercoaster of "having a dream" in a way that is new and terrifyingly wonderful.

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  • Beckett Flynn: Big Time Toppers by Patrick Vermillion
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    Ay - YO!!! This play MOVES! Its 175 pages long and I read it in one sitting??? It's hilarious, painful, and suspenseful in a way only a Vermillion play can be — but this one's extra special due to 1. the circus aesthetic, 2. the very real and (likely) personal dilemma of an artist approaching their thirties, and 3. HARLOWWW. Patrick's written a lot of great flawed protagonists, but this slimey fucker tops them all. Endlessly loveable, hateable, and intoxicating, Harlow is a vortex of ambition -- something simultaneously gorgeous and hideous when morphed under capitalism... lemme audition for...

    Ay - YO!!! This play MOVES! Its 175 pages long and I read it in one sitting??? It's hilarious, painful, and suspenseful in a way only a Vermillion play can be — but this one's extra special due to 1. the circus aesthetic, 2. the very real and (likely) personal dilemma of an artist approaching their thirties, and 3. HARLOWWW. Patrick's written a lot of great flawed protagonists, but this slimey fucker tops them all. Endlessly loveable, hateable, and intoxicating, Harlow is a vortex of ambition -- something simultaneously gorgeous and hideous when morphed under capitalism... lemme audition for 'em?

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