The Wildly Inappropriate Poetry of Arthur Greenleaf Holmes
November 9, 10, 16, 17, 30; December 1, 7, 14, 15; January 4, 5, 11, 12, 18, 19, 25, 26; February 1, 2, 8, and 9 at 9:30 PM
Gordon Boudreau, Creator/Performer
Hic Incipit Pestis Productions presents the world premiere of The Wildly Inappropriate Poetry of Arthur Greenleaf Holmes, an evening of irreverent sophistication featuring the wickedly sly verse of England’s famously unconstrained poet. The preeminent 16th Century “Poet of the Perverse” fuses irresponsible humor with a deep love of language, poetry, and the humanities for an evening of convulsive laughter and surprising insight. Blending the profane with the elegant and the subversive with the illuminating, the wholly-original libertine Arthur Greenleaf Holmes takes the stage to bring us such hits as the insightful “Ode to an Extremely Provocative Knothole,” the prepubescent lament “Mother, Will My Stones Drop?,” and his crowning achievement “I Built My Love a Menstrual Hut.” Forced to find its way out of a dark and dusty corner of the Smithsonian amidst a landscape of uninspired current pop events, news-feed minutiae, and a non-nutritional diet of cat videos, The Wildly Inappropriate Poetry of Arthur Greenleaf Holmes fuses melodic language with an utter disregard for decent society to delight the well-read and casual philistine. From college professors to the noble laborer, the NPR set to the barroom biker crowd—this is an evening tailor-made for the pervert of distinction.
www.arthurgreenleafholmes.com
Written and performed by actor and comedian Gordon Boudreau.
David Rosenberg produces and directs.
Paul Siebold, Press Representative, paul@offoffpr.com
*Content warning: This production is intended for audiences 18 years and older.
"...like 75 minutes with the strangest literature professor at a small liberal arts college — the one whose classes always have huge waitlists."
“"...the kind of show that will appeal to guys who have committed entire Monty Python sketches to memory and will gladly prove it to you ... those who might chase an afternoon at the Ren Faire with an evening of light BDSM. And, most surprisingly, it offers a little thrill for the high school English teacher with a secret taste for the bawdy. If you belong in any of these categories, you shan't be disappointed."
"...certainly funnier than anything on late-night television these days."
- Zachary Stewart, TheaterMania
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*All attendees and artists will be required to display proof of at least 2 doses of a covid vaccination before being admitted to the space. Patrons will also be required to wear masks while indoors at all times.