Nothing is as potent as human touch . . . Working actors such as Simone Gad, Erika Schickel and Dan Froot are each engaging storytellers. Gad's frumpy persona speaks volumes about beauty and self-image. Froot uses a plastic water bottle as a prop to talk about his father the inventor. Schickel describes a shopping trip with her two young daughters.
Some artists even adapt their performances for a drinking audience.
Jerry, who dropped out of the performance art scene for years to travel the world, now uses what he learned on those journeys in his act. Often appearing in drag or other outlandish costumes and wigs, he incorporates Tibetan chant and often indecipherable lyrics in his show. He yells, he whispers, but always he entertains. Unclothed women have been know to get attention in clubs too, but usually not in the way Rochelle Fabb goes about it. Fabb is rolled onto the Knitting Factory stage in a wheelchair, draped with a sheer white fabric.