SHOW TITLE: I'm Mad as Hell and I'm Going to Take It Just a Little Bit Longer
COMPANY: Kurt Bodden
BASED CITY OF COMPANY: Oakland, CA
AUTHOR: Kurt Bodden
SHOW DESCRIPTION: Despite years of “working on himself,” and even fancying himself a self-help guru in his satirical "Steve Seabrook: Better Than You," which sold out the SF Fringe and enjoyed a long run at the Marsh Theatre, Kurt can still cheerfully draw from an inner wellspring of unresolved rage. Having matured from a teenage non-confrontationalist to a grownup in an ongoing state of simmering resentment, maybe Kurt will someday be able to tell people to get off his lawn. Assuming he ever gets a lawn. Kurt has performed most of the comedy things – standup, improv, sketch, solo shows, storytelling, physical comedy – and will hurl himself into all of them in this one. (But there’s already enough anger out there about politics that he’s going to avoid putting his hand on that particular stove.)
TYPE OF SHOW: Solo performance / comedy
TIME: 50 minutes
TIME OF SHOW: Kurt Bodden
WARNINGS: Occasional dirty words (including enthusiastic clusters of them), talk of self-harm.
BIO
"I’m Mad as Hell and I’m Going to Take It Just a Little Bit Longer" is the fourth show that Kurt has created for the SF Fringe, along with the monologue "Class Notes: True Tales from Harvard's Alumni Magazine," the physical-comedy duo "An Awkward Sensation," and the aforementioned "Steve Seabrook." He has performed and taught improv from BATS Improv to the Edinburgh Fringe, studied sketch comedy with The Groundlings, toured as a standup comic, and hosted his own talk show at the legendary Purple Onion in North Beach. He also trained in physical performance at Flying Actor Studio with James Donlon and Leonard Pitt. Formerly a professional dishwasher, Harvard graduate, and four-time game show contestant, Kurt now works as a user-experience designer at IBM, where he wishes more people were funny.
CREDITS: Photos by Jennifer Hale, Graphic design by Dave Kessler
