Warrior Needs Food, Badly

The Journey to America

"...I got
Maximum Verbosity -- words at full velocity --
no lie, just veracity -- almost no mendacity --
but now it's time for me to make like a mime
got to zip up my lips and put the key inside of me..."

from "Warrior Needs Food, Badly"

Praise for Warrior Needs Food, Badly

"...a lot of fun..."
-Scott Pakudaitis, photographer

"...truly enjoyed the fine physical comedy - and pure mime mastery! As far as phil and Siarde - they were about as close to Warner Bros. cartoon characters as you could get...so now I have to say, 50 times -
I APPRECIATE MIME NOW
I APPRECIATE MIME NOW
I APPRECIATE MIME NOW
I APPRECIATE MIME NOW..."
-Kay Kirscht, spoken word artist

Script Information

a one-act multimedia farce in pantomime
by phillip andrew bennett low
estimated running time: 45 minutes

Cast: one male, two female, one pianist, four total.
Setting: various settings in China and America.
Time: modern-day.

Produced? Yes, as part of the 2006 FoolFest and independently in 2007.
Family-friendly? Yes. (Note that the crass profanities in the above clip were ad-libbed when this scene was excerpted for a darker, more adult show; the script itself is quite clean.)

About the Show

The two remaining survivors of the nineteen-eighties take on pop culture from China to America, from the thirties to the nineties. A little poetry, a lot of mime, no CGI or wire fu. And yes, they do all their own stunts.