CRUMBS in Zurich

CRUMBS are in Zurich... which is giving Oslo a run for their money for "city that mosts runs with money". A show, a workshop and some sun and some rain. That is what Zurich is made of. That, and money. Here are some Zurich impressions.
 This guy is a typical Zurich person. You can see he's trying to put his cigarette on one of those really long cigarette holders. He's classy.
 This statue is the typical Zurich style statue. A naked man trying to feed an eagle. Figure it out.
This is Tyler and his typical Zurich style cigar.
 This is a typical couple of fisherman in Zurich catching seagulls.

This is Lee rising up with his Ape brothers... typical.

What's that? You want to know what the show in Zurich was about? Okay...

The show we did in Zurich was at the Topferei theatre. A nice little theatre. And a nice little show. As suggestions we got "a Catholic priest who gets married" and "young love". This of course meant the show was filled with love and sex... which always seems to be the show we do in Zurich. Zurich (and Switzerland in general) is quite sexually repressed and absolutely needs a CRUMBS show to be sexual overt. It's part of the healing process.





One story followed an old couple who were looking to spice things up in their relationship as they reflect on "what could have been". They opt to invite their neighbours over for a dinner party to introduce them to the idea of "swinging". This of course ends in disaster, as the two wives end up hooking up. In the awkward morning after they decide that maybe "what could have been" might just end up being not as good as "what already is".
The other story was about Francine and her love and devotion for the town priest Father MacMurphy. He constantly preaches the teachings of Ezekiel over Jesus and gets into some trouble with the Arch Bishop Ferdinand (not to be confused with the Arch Duke of the same name). It turns out that Francine not only is in love with the priest, but also is the reason the church makes any money at all with the success of her amazing bake sales. After confessing her love and being turned down, she decides to leave town. The church goes bankrupt and the priest is forced to leave too. This unites the priest and Francine. They marry and start a new church based on bake sales and the teachings of Ezekiel. Ah, true love.


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CRUMBS in Berlin

CRUMBS is now in Berlin. We're teaching workshops. We're developing a show with Die Gorillas. We're eating very good Mexican food. We're hanging out with good friends.

Keep looking out for us. We'll keep looking out for you.

CRUMBS on tour in Europe... again.


CRUMBS are on tour in Europe. Yes, we're on tour again. We just did our show in Hamburg at der Motte. Here's how it went.

First, we show up and for some reason they haven't got turntables for Dj Hunnicutt. We've played there before so I don't know why they didn't think we needed out turntables. But after some phone calls, the turntables showed up. Then we did some classic CRUMBS show fun.

For our inspirations we got the classic occupation of "dentist" and the not as classic suggestion of "deep living". Deep Living was the title of a book someone in the audience was reading. He gave us the explanation of it as "there's a boy and a girl... you can imagine the rest".

So of course the show started off in a dentist's office where we saw a man who was afraid of the dentist. His mouth was in really bad shape but had it all fixed up. Fixed up so well that he became more handsome and more confident. So confident that he decided to divorce his wife and live the life more suited for a man of his stature. He gets a promotion and a new secretary. The thing is, while his outward appearance improved, he was still in love with the woman he just broke up with and broke the heart of. He couldn't even have sex with his sexy secretary. His wife tried to start over too, going out to the club and took home a bouncer for some meaningless sex. The bouncer just happened to catch the husband coming home for his wife. He beat the crap out of the husband... so much that he had his beautiful teeth knocked out. The husband and wife eventually made up and got beck together, on the promise that the husband would never make the same mistake again. Love prevails right?

The other story in the show involved a failed writer alone in her house, lonely. Her books about pigs that go on adventures for some reason won't get published. A failing traveling salesman, of course he's selling travel packages. They meet and it turns out, his last travel package is to Hawaii, where she finds out that they have pig roasts. She decides that they have to go there and set the pigs free. They go on their own adventure and fall in love. Again, love prevails. I guess you can imagine the rest.



After the show we go to the "Kleine Pause" for a little break (and a little bite to eat). We then go the "Crazy Horst" for a little drink.


 I would like to dedicate this post to Frank.