John Cleese – Seven Ways to Skin an Ocelot
Theatre Tours
Producer and Touring Producer for English comedian John Cleese and his new stage show, Seven Ways to Skin an Ocelot.
Location: USA
Year: 2006
Venues / Dates: Campbell Hall, Santa Barbara CA (27 -30 Jan) Humboldt State University’s Van Duzer Theatre. Arcata CA (2 Feb), Laxson Auditorium, Chico CA (4 Feb), Zellerbach Hall, Berkeley CA (8, 9 Feb), Sunset Center, Carmel CA (11 Feb), Cohan Center, San Luis Obispo CA (12 Feb), Smothers Theatre, Malibu CA (14 Feb), Price Center Ballroom, La Jolla CA (7 March), Piper Theater, Scottsdale AZ (10, 11 Mar), Royce Hall, Los Angeles CA (18 Mar), Carpenter Center, Long Beach CA (24, 25 Mar)
Presenter: Sheep Lemur Productions
About
British comedian John Cleese — a Monty Python original, master of silly walks, Fawlty Towers madman and lemur namesake — presents the US debut of his one-man show, Seven Ways to Skin an Ocelot, a multi-character outing featuring, he says, “various Cleese underlings, flunkeys, retainers, sidekicks, minions, cat’s-paws and cronies. Bill Brown, a Royal Shakespeare Company alumni, directs.
Cleese rose to fame with his British co-horts (Graham Chapman, Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Michael Palin) on television’s Monty Python’s Flying Circus and the comedy troupe’s subsequent films. He also created the popular Brit hit TV show Fawlty Towers. Other credits include A Fish Called Wanda, Shrek 2, a recurring guest role on Will & Grace, as Q in recent James Bond films and playing Nearly Headless Nick in the Harry Potter movies.
Director: Bille Brown
Cast: John Cleese, Camila Cleese, Garry Scott – Irvine, Kerry Le Kaski, Jay Bunyan
Reviews
The dark comedy of John Cleese is a given. Certainly neither Chico Performances, nor Saturday’s sold-out crowd anticipated the running comedic theme of death and an ending that would have made Alice Cooper proud. – The Buzz