Spent

In collaboration with: Theatre Smith Gilmour and Theatre RUN

SPENT enjoyed a successful 3 week run at Factory Studio Theatre in October 2009.

On September 26, 2008, two execs went to sleep with their hopes and dreams tucked safely in the bank. The next morning as the alarm buzzed, they wiped the sleep from their eyes and awoke to find everything gone! was it a dream?... a nightmare? It was a crisis!!

Watch two hapless high-powered execs fumble around trying to make cents of the absurd super market they've crashed landed into. Their debts are high, their options have taken a downturn and they're SPENT!

Ravi Jain and Adam Paolozza are back after presenting TOOLS, the best selling show from last year's Clown Fest. This time they've teamed up with Dean Gilmour and Michelle Smith to bring you SPENT, an awfully absurd, slightly surreal and always funny play about climbing and falling off the corporate ladder.

Best selling show of the Toronto Clown Festival, June 2009

“If you wanna laugh yourself silly, see Spent… A wonderful combination of incisive satire and sharp physical comedy…Performers Paolozza and Jain are impeccable, alternating and blending movement and dialogue so expertly that you’d think they’re joined not only at the hip but also at a telepathic brain level.” –Jon Kaplan, Now Magazine

“Spent is an utterly engaging hour because it is smart and witty… [the show] is first class theatre from powerhouse creators… The brilliance of the show is how two human bodies can create whole vistas of images through movement and Andre du Toit’s innovative lighting… Jain and Paolozza are charismatic performers.” –Paula Citron, Classical 96.3FM

“Spent is splendidly satirical as Paolozza, Jain, Smith and Gilmour target the greed that underlies the current crisis.” –Robert Crew, Toronto Star

“Happily Jain and Paolozza are talented clowns, and under the often expert direction of Smith and Gilmour, they create moments of inspired lunacy that drew delighted guffaws.” -John Colbourn, Toronto SUN

"This is a great show! Inventive, physical, funny, virtuosic and somewhat sly. It's unabashed physical theatre done with a mixture of simplicity and sophistication. Ravi and Adam are the real thing."
-Leah Cherniak, Clown Master teacher and former Artistic Director of Theatre Columbus

"I was delighted by Spent, a great way to spend 40 minutes in a black box and come out feeling richer, not spent. Witty, subversive, "cocasse" - I hope there is more where that came from."
-Mathew Jocelyn, Artistic Director Canadian Stage Company

"You don’t want to miss this show!"
-Franco Boni, Artistic Director of the Theatre Centre