The 2017 FRIGID Festival Presents THE LOVE SONG OF TONYA HARDING

It's been twenty years since the attack on Nancy Kerrigan, and Tonya Harding needs some cash. At a bar to emcee an Olympic viewing party, Tonya traces her journey from trailer park to international punch line. Told with a darkly comic voice, this solo show explores one of sport's most notorious figures and her quest for redemption.

[Elser's] telling a hell of a story, and telling it quite well...The more Elser explores Harding's self-destruction, the more it becomes clear that Tonya Harding was less an evil, greedy, ambitious woman than she was an American who got dealt a bad hand by birth, and almost managed to dig her way out of arriving on the planet with two strikes against her. The Love Song of Tonya Harding is a walk on the weird, sad side of American culture - which is often far and away the most interesting side to walk on. " - The Calgary Herald

Clara Elser (Writer/Performer) Clara Elser is a New York based theatre artist whose work has been seen at Dixon Place and The Bushwick Starr among others. In 2014 she received a M.F.A in Theatre from Sarah Lawrence College, focusing primarily on new and devised work. Her graduate thesis was a solo show entitled Whacked! An Intimate Evening With Lizzie Borden, which she wrote and performed. The piece has been seen in New York and in Philadelphia as part of the SoLow Festival. Her solo show, The Love Song of Tonya Harding, received its world premiere at the 2015 Calgary Fringe Festival. She holds a B.A. in Drama from Kenyon College.

Tickets: $18, $13 Student/Seniors/Industry

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