“A ROUNDHOUSE KICK!” – NY TIMES

“A Breezy, Extremely Funny Look at Fame, Ambition, Gossip and Celebrity” – This Week In NY

 “A First Rate Comic Target.  A Great Way to Spend an Hour Escaping the Swirl of Everyday Problems” – Theaterscene.net

The Rise and Fall of Jean Claude Van Damme is told largely through puppets that beat the crap out of each other. Stylistically inspired by the writing of Kurt Vonnegut, especially Breakfast of Champions, this production is about the life and times of 80’s/90’s action icon Jean Claude Van Damme, the Muscles from Brussels, kind of. It can easily be about Steven Segal or Dolf Lundgren or Wesley Snipes or… It’s a redemption tale, or a cautionary tale, or a comedy of manners, or hard-hitting melodrama, and mostly absurd.

The Rise and Fall was written by Timothy Haskell and Directed by Paul Smithyman and it ran in 2022 at the Pit Loft before transferring to the Brooklyn Art Haus in Williamsburg, Brooklyn