Across dozens of performances, variety acts, and pratfalls, Henry Goldkamp's Balloon Animal lures us into a festival of flailing wonder. Staged by a cast of irreverent characters, clowns and poets, politicks and scuzzery, Balloon Animal is at turns sad, farcical, biting, and honest. Goldkamp trips over the tightrope between genuine and cringe, bounces, and catches himself again in bouts of virtuosic vertigo. Balloon Animal's prop-poetics will have you sweating bullets, knives, and whatever other slapsticks are stuck in your circus tent of a head.
