CIRQUE DE LÉGUME Plays 59E59 Theaters, 9/6-10/2

59E59 Theaters (Elysabeth Kleinhans, Artistic Director; Peter Tear, Executive Producer) announced today Dublin's CIRQUE DE LÉGUME will play 1st Irish at 59E59 Theaters. Created by and featuring Jaimie Carswell and Nancy Trotter and directed by Pablo Ibarluzea, CIRQUE DE LÉGUME begins performances on Tuesday, September 6 for a limited engagement through Sunday, October 2. Press opening is Sunday, September 11 at 7:30 PM. The performance schedule is Tuesday - Thursday at 7:30 PM; Friday at 8:30 PM; Saturday at 2:30 PM and 8:30 PM; and Sunday at 3:30 PM and 7:30 PM. Performances are at 59E59 Theaters (59 East 59th Street, between Park and Madison Avenues). Tickets are $25 ($17.50 for 59E59 Members). To purchase tickets, call Ticket Central at (212) 279-4200 or go to www.59e59.org.

Enjoy 50 minutes of comic mayhem as two idiots put on a Cirque-du-Soleil type show using only a chair an a box of cast-off vegetables. Marvel at the Veget-animal! Be enthralled by the Leek of Power! Fantasize over the Onion Strip Tease! The award-winning CIRQUE DE LÉGUME shows us how beautiful life can be if we only stop to play with it.

This hilarious love story between two clowns and their vegetables visits the margins of our cast-off, disposable world to discover the wonderful impermanence of everything and the magic of life that grows underground and unseen.

Jaimie Carswell (performer) is a founding member of Ireland's Mangiare Theatre Company. As a clown performer he has trained with Jos Houben, Susanna Lastrato, Julie Goell, and Philippe Gaulier, among others. He recently toured the UK with the London-based clown orchestra The Honk Project. Recent work in Ireland includes The Grand Voyage of the Spalpeen Bonaparts, The Blanch (for which he was also nominated Best Male Performer in the 2009 Dublin Fringe Festival), and the Double Bass.

Pablo Ibarluzea (director) is a director, teacher and actor. Pablo graduated from the Ecole Jacques Lecoq in Paris and El Timbal in Barcelona. Pablo has also trained extensively in clown with Philippe Gaulier, Jos Houben, and Marcello Magni, among others. He has directed clown shows for The Gazpacho Brothers (Italy), Ginno & Foggy (France), Cie. La Boheme (France), Boxeadores (Spain) and his own company Yin de Yan Teatro in Spain. Recent work in Ireland includes The Spalpeen Bonaparts and The Babelfish Tartuffe for Mangiare Theatre Company.

Nancy Trotter (performer) started her performance career with the acclaimed Giffords Circus where she worked for four years with clown Angela DeCastro, eccentric dancer Barry Grantham, and director Nell Gifford. She later graduated from the Ecole Jacques Lecoq in Paris, went on to work with Footsbarn Theatre Company, and has been creating theatre and working in film since. Recent work in Ireland includes The Babelfish Tartuffe and La Familie European for Mangiare Theatre Company.

CIRQUE DE LÉGUME is presented as part of Imagine Ireland, Culture Ireland's year of Irish arts in America in 2011.