La Divina Caricatura

A graphic novel and performance poem, a mixed-media musical cartoon, an animated feature film come to life, La Divina Caricatura is in the pataphysical tradition of Alfred Jarry, if Jarry had been a Dante fan.

In this collection, we meet unforgettable characters: Rose the Dog, who thinks she is a woman; her lover John, a junkie filmmaker; Ponzi Porco, PhD, a pig in love with the New York Times; and the Warrior Ant, who, to impress his father, Trotsky the Termite, declares the “perpetual revolution” of the bugs of the fifth world. Each a soul on its own pilgrimage, seldom with a Virgil or a Beatrice to guide them, they often try to guide one another, only to get more lost.

A dazzling, comic, potent mix of ideas and character, invention and reality, the plays in La Divina Caricatura reinvigorate the stage for our time.