Cleaning Clowns

The aristocracy has fallen and is required to clean the festival and the participants to pay their mortgage on their palace, which is under foreclosure. They aren't happy about it. 

Commissioned for the Spark Festival, Mesa Arts Center, 2013. First premiered at the Busking Bonanza, Tompkins Square Park. June 2002.

Performed in 2013 by Michael Margetis, Sarah Clevinger, Marshall Volsher, and Fouad Melki.