Joshua English Scrimshaw and Shanan Wexler, creators of the 2007 Fringe Festival hit From Here to Maternity reunite with the cast of Hardcover Theater's London After Midnight for a new, very different kind of show...

Written by Shanan Wexler and Joshua English Scrimshaw
"Clever and inventive voices in comedy theater" - Star Tribune
Conceived by Steve Schroer
One of City Pages' 2008 "Artists of the Year"

Naples, New Jersey. 1959. Welcome to Johnny Bocca's Place, where barflies tell bawdy tales of guys and broads. In walks Lenora, a prim housewife with a broken-down Edsel and a mysterious tale of her own... Johnny Bocca's Sex Farce for Swingin' Lovers takes some of the naughtiest stories from Boccaccio's Decameron - a medieval Italian work similar to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales - and transplants them to America, 600 years later. The result is a hilarious new show loaded with sex, booze, and vintage lounge music.

FEATURING
Emily Brooke Hansen, Arnie Roos, Amy Schweickhardt,
Joshua English Scrimshaw, Tim Uren,
Eric Webster and Shanan Wexler
Directed by Shanan Wexler
Choreography by Adrienne English Scrimshaw

PERFORMANCES
May 8 through June 1
Thursday/Friday/Saturday 8:00 p.m.
Sunday 3:00 p.m.
Pay What You Can Night: Thursday, May 15
ASL/AD Performance: Friday, May 30

VENUE
The Playwrights' Center
2301 Franklin Avenue East Minneapolis, MN
Adults $20; Students/Seniors $17
For reservations, call 612-581-2229
or buy them online.

Please visit www.hardcovertheater.org for more information.

Joseph's hit interactive romantic comedy is now playing in New York, Seattle, Bulgaria AND enjoying an ongoing, open-ended run EVERY MONDAY NIGHT right here in Minneapolis at the Bryant-Lake Bowl! Visit Adventures in Mating for more info!

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The Scrimshaw Brothers are a Minneapolis comedy team specializing in sketch and theatrical comedy. The Brothers are staples of the Minnesota Fringe Festival, among City Pages'2002 Artists of the Year and the creators of two Twin Cities' late night cabarets, Look Ma No Pants and The Scrimshaw Show. The Pioneer Press calls the Scrimshaw Brothers “the Twin Cities' sharpest sketch comedy team” and in 2003, Minneapolis-St. Paul Magazine named The Scrimshaw Brothers as one of the Twin Cities' top ten family owned businesses.


Joseph Scrimshaw is an actor, writer, and producer. Joseph has performed with Bedlam Theater, Mystery Cafe, the History Theatre, the MN Shakespeare Project, and is a resident performer of children's theater at the Old Gem in New Richmond, Wisconsin. As an independent writer and producer, Joseph has created multiple top ten best selling Fringe shows including Worst Show in the Fringe Die, Clowns, Die!, and Macbeth's Awesome Scottish Castle Party; and is an occasional arts commentator on MPR and The Current with Mary Lucia. Joseph is now an internationally produced playwright. His hit romantic comedy Adventures in Mating has appeared in New York, Seattle, the UK, Bulgaria, and every Monday night at the Bryant Lake Bowl right here in Minneapolis. Joseph has been described as "clever and inventive" by the Star Tribune, "physically fearless" by Pioneer Press and "King of Comedy" by MN Monthly. For more info on Joseph and his projects visit josephscrimshaw.com.


Joshua Scrimshaw, has built a reputation as a physical performer. City Pages declares, “Josh is famous for his commitment to the physical action of a scene.” In 2002, Joshua along with choreographer and spouse Adrienne English created the dance and silent comedy show Shut Your Joke Hole, described by City Pages as "bawdy masterpieces of comic timing" and named one of the Twin Cities' top ten theater productions of the year. Joshua's recent collaboration with Shanan Wexler, From Here to Maternity was a top ten selling show of the 2007 Minnesota Fringe. In addition to writing and producing, Joshua has performed with many local theater companies playing roles as diverse as Orestes in Bedlam Theater's production of Jean Paul Sartre's The Flies, Sir Andrew Aguecheek in Theater in the Round's production of William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night and D.B. Cooper in Cheap Theater's original production DB Cooper Didn't Die. Joshua also works regularly with Hardcover Theater, playing Sir Robert Peel and William Hare in the final three installments of their hit Victorian serial London After Midnight and, along with his brother Joseph, adapting and directing Hansel and Gretel for their upcoming Halloween show The Dark Side of the Brothers Grimm . For his next Hardcover project, Joshua will reunite with Shanan Wexler to adapt Giovanni Boccaccio's Medieval classic The Decameron .


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The website of our Scrimshaw Show co-star Tim Uren!

Photos on this site courtesy of
Jen Scott, Scott Pakudaitis and Dan Hetzel