WE FOUND BIGFOOT!!

On January 31st, the Dancing Monkey Players presented Le Salon Des Refusés #2 at Cafe Koi, reading Mike Czuba’s play/screenplay/something called WAITING FOR GORDO*. Introducing the Dancing Monkey Players (left to right on the stage: ‘Original’ Filsan Dualeh, Michelle Brandenburg, Dean Combitsis, Wil Knoll, Lonni Olson and Melissa Tuplin. (pics by Leon Schwesinger) There were hats! […]

Monkeys on Late Night.

On November 29th, the Dancing Monkey crew was invited to present their performance video GOOD FORTUNE DRINKS TOO MUCH at LATE NIGHT AT THE PLAZA. We felt very comfortable in their special brand of madness. We also discovered that monkeys fit quite snuggly on questionable chesterfields. Pics from Wise Photo.

I AM I – “Montreal playwright’s anti-narrative aesthetic”

“The characters in Mike Czuba’s new tragi-comedy “I AM I” may state in frustration that they hate postmodernism, but the show owns its very appeal to this fragmented, and yet strangely cohesive genius of narrative.” Lucian Tion, Amsterdam Fringe – 2013 FOUND HERE.“…If you spent the entirety of Waiting for Godot wondering when the hell […]

AFTER US THE SAVAGE GOD – The Reading.

July 12th, 2016 – The first of hopefully many ‘Salon’ style Dancing Monkey gatherings was held at the Mainline Theatre in Montreal to present a reading of Mike Czuba’s play AFTER US THE SAVAGE GOD, about the writer Alfred Jarry and his discovery of Time Travel. The readers were: Caitlin Murphy, Sonia Patenaude, Liz Valdez, Paul-Eric […]

A Review from Chicago.

A review from Bob Lichtenbert (meaninginart.org) of Mike Czuba’s Satie et Cocteau. Produced by Genesis Theatrical Productions. Directed by Elayne LeTraunik. Featuring: Scott Purdy as Cocteau and Dwight Sora as The Actor (Satie) “Satie et Cocteau” by Genesis Theatrical Productions (Meaning Grade: 89%) features surrealist poet Jean Cocteau’s attempting to deal with the death of his friend, the composer Eric […]