“Kama Sutra”

2001

Written by John Harvey

Directed by Jennifer Decker

In 2001 and 2002 Mildred’s Umbrella began to make a name for itself by producing two original full length plays. Kama Sutra and Eros:A Circus would later be revisited and reworked in 2005.

PRESS

“Harvey’s Dark Script creates a whole new genre...a well-turned lesson on how not to fall in love” Houston Press

“verbal high-wire acts, intelligence and high style” Houston Voice

“Eros: A Circus”

2002

John Harvey’s surreal leap through love.

A play within a play in which a Ringmaster, Acrobat, and Tumbler eat duck, play chess, assault each other, and argue about love and death as they rehearse scenes from Eros: A Circus. The play juggles Greek Myths, and concentration camps, suicide and sex, as sthe characters begin to reveal how desire unravels their lives while they try to prepare for an evening’s performance.