IF AMERICANS ARE SO AWFUL
Then Take Your Hand Off My Knee
by Carolyn Cohagan
Peter
Bramley
Theatre-maker. Performer. Teacher.
“One-woman performance that attempts to summarize a large, complex, and conflicting nation…It's a funny and occasionally moving tale”
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If Americans Are So Awful Then Take Your Hand Off My Knee
Written and Performed by Carolyn Cohagan
Devised by Carolyn Cohagan and Peter Bramley
Directed and Designed by Peter Bramley
A one-woman comedy about history, ancestry and what it means to be American.
PEFORMANCES:
Orlando Fringe Festival, Florida USA, May 2002
HERE Arts Center, New York USA, July 2002
“Carolyn Cohagan's charming one-woman show about her quest to carve a respectable self-image from our wretched national reputation…winning personality, cartoonish props and effective mimicry of her colorful ancestors.”
ORLANDO WEEKLY