On the Harmful Effects of Tobacco at Multi-Use Community Cultural Center (MuCCC)

Hailed by audiences as “clowning at its finest” and “laugh out loud silliness”, Byrne has performed this show at theater festivals in Pittsburgh, San Diego, and Los Angeles. This is one of Chekhov’s earliest works for the theater — a short, one-act comedy of a man giving a lecture that goes awry. In this joyful revival, Byrne brings modern clowning and his own particular sensibility to the work of the Russian master. The show includes physical comedy, some light audience interaction, and a (more or less) faithful rendering of the text. “Pure absurdity, Andy Kaufman a la Jim Carrey with a dash of Danny Kay” (FringeReview)