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*GRAPHIC* Enemas and sex act shock audience at Winnipeg Fringe show

SOURCE: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/story/2013/07/20/mb-fringe-controversial-performance.html

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Enemas and sex act shock audience at Winnipeg Fringe show
WARNING: This story contains graphic information that may be disturbing
CBC News
Posted: Jul 20, 2013 11:54 AM CT
Last Updated: Jul 22, 2013 12:05 AM



CTA controversial Fringe Festival performance featuring two naked actors engaging in mayonnaise enemas and a sexual act on stage left some audience members in shock while others walked out of the theatre Friday night.

The show, called Hollywood Hen Pit, stars Doug Melnyk and Ian Mozdzen, who are known for their edgy performances, having raised eyebrows in 2011 with their Fringe play Monopoly Man Pit.

This year's performance is about the life of an aging Hollywood starlet, as performed by two nude men.

"What I saw were not one, not two, but three mayonnaise enemas," said Fringe Festival reviewer Michelle Palansky, who was in the audience Friday night.

"By the third time… I was like, you know, this is gratuitous. I do not need to see any more mayonnaise enemas for the rest of my lifetime."

A portion of the poster for Hollywood Hen Pit at Winnipeg's Fringe Festival. A portion of the poster for Hollywood Hen Pit at Winnipeg's Fringe Festival. (Show poster)
The show, which is completely improvised, also featured oral sex between the two men, to the surprise of many.

"Fellatio was performed," said Palansky. "Not for very long, for a couple of seconds, but definitely performed," she said.

Palansky explains that the sexual act was not planned, it just happened, adding that even the stage manager was surprised.

"That was just in the heat of the moment in the middle of the show," she said. "It was sort of a non-climax. Literally and figuratively."

The Winnipeg police said performing sexual acts on stage is illegal, and Palansky said the actors should have known better.

"You can't be a performer on stage in Winnipeg, or any other city, and not know the laws of the land," said Palansky. "And as far as I know, everyone should know that live sex acts are not allowed on stage period."

Artists say show meant to challenge audience

Doug Melnyk and Ian Mozdzen told CBC News the oral sex in the show was simulated though the enemas were real. The pair said they classify their work as performance art, not theatre, and it is designed to challenge the audience.

"If think if you make art according to what people want you're a shoemaker," Melnyk told CBC News Saturday. "You're trying to figure out what people want and you make it for them. That's not art."

Melnyk describes the performance as "cartoony" creating images for people to think about.

"We're sort of trying to show all the sides of the body and of human actions that people are often embarrassed about or have conflicted feelings about… we're going to show the raw side of things and we're not going to protect people from imagery and that's a better way to get at these issues of deep feeling and deep pain," he added.

Mozdzen agrees, saying the show is intentionally fake. He adds that neither of them are interested in making any money from the performance.

"It is a commercial festival so walkouts are fine. Even if we got shut down tomorrow we'd be fine because we did it and it's done," said Mozdzen.

Officials add age restriction

Fringe Festival officials said there have been no formal complaints about the piece, but the production company and the fest added an age restriction of 18 and older.

The performers said they had a discussion with the festival about the issues after the performance and everyone is satisfied.

“We don’t tolerate anything illegal on stage, or anything that puts the audience at risk,” said Chuck McEwen, Fringe executive producer, in a press release.

"When it comes to the content of a show, one of the principles of Fringe Festivals across the country is that artists have artistic control to create and present their work on stage. Whether or not a show has artistic merit is left up to the audience, who choose whether or not to attend," he said.

The show is set to take the stage again Sunday at noon.
 

normisanas

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I think they should be allowed to do anything they want, even torture each other or take a dump on stage, or eat shit even.

But they should have warned their audience that an enema was going to happen, and that the performers would be nude, and that there would be homo sex between two men. It's wrong to shock people with such things especially because some people might be religious, old, or too young, etc. They should be criminally charged with a count per act per person in the audience.
 

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I think they should be allowed to do anything they want, even torture each other or take a dump on stage, or eat shit even.

But they should have warned their audience that an enema was going to happen, and that the performers would be nude, and that there would be homo sex between two men. It's wrong to shock people with such things especially because some people might be religious, old, or too young, etc. They should be criminally charged with a count per act per person in the audience.
What religion are mayo enemas against?
 
I think they should be allowed to do anything they want, even torture each other or take a dump on stage, or eat shit even.

But they should have warned their audience that an enema was going to happen, and that the performers would be nude, and that there would be homo sex between two men. It's wrong to shock people with such things especially because some people might be religious, old, or too young, etc. They should be criminally charged with a count per act per person in the audience.

Agreed...before you walk into the theatre


WARNING!!

GRAPHIC CONTENT

This show will contain ......
 
Actually reading back and looking at my own comment...they said that most of it was "improvised" so how could you warn people if you do not know what will happen?

Hmmmm... I would say that is kinda sneaky of them.
:confused:
 

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he he, how can people report on stuff like this with a straight face? Mayonnaise - can that be good for the colon?

On second thought, it would make for some tasty/tangy ATM ...
kinda like a creampie... but different? :)
 

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I was hoping for pictures.

I agree you have the right to do anything you want.

But that doesn't mean you have the right to kind of make people watch.

I have always wondered about those porn sites or just people that think public sex or whatever is cool
Well for that matter anything even screaming loud music, you have the right to listen to your music any music as loud as you want,
but does everyone else with in a block or two have to listen to it as well.
 

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I was hoping for pictures.

I agree you have the right to do anything you want.

But that doesn't mean you have the right to kind of make people watch.

I have always wondered about those porn sites or just people that think public sex or whatever is cool
Well for that matter anything even screaming loud music, you have the right to listen to your music any music as loud as you want,
but does everyone else with in a block or two have to listen to it as well.
Jeez, sounds like you're getting old...

Firstly...no one is making people watch their show. What do you think happened? That they went and abducted people and forced them to watch? Have any of you ever been to the Fringe festival, here in Vancouver or anywhere? From the sounds of it, probably not.

If you go to the Fringe festivals, go see the theatre shows, they clearly warn you of the more 'adult/risky' performances and that they are viewer discretion advised. Throw that in with FRINGE content....well there you go.

Seven of Nine...people paid to see the show, they weren't performing it on the street for the general public..... You had to buy tickets to see the show, and in the act of buying the tickets for that particular kind of show, most people would have been prepared somewhat of what may be in store for them...comparing that to the neighbors playing screaming loud music that's disturbing you is apples to grapes. That particular audience paid to see this in a theatre...what you're describing is an old man's bitter rant of those darn kids making noise again.

Kids, church ladies, grannie and gramps aren't going to see the Fringe....or these kinds of shows. There's going to be shocking and graphic content in Fringe entertainment not suitable for everyone....that's why they've been calling it the FRINGE Festival for the last couple of decades...if you want safe, predicable entertainment, then watch that, and only concern yourself with such things...right? Also these sort of more adult shows carry explicit warnings in the guides that you can get that state the content is maybe not for them. Just like the movies.
 

sevenofnine

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I am getting old.

Not getting I am old.

How would you like to hear my opera music at full throttle.

And my comment was more directed at public nudity or public displays of sex.
I remember going to vegas with my young kids. Some one told me you could take kids there.

My daughter guys were hooting and hollering at her, and at every corner people were handing out flyers for escorts. I didn't take one, but they gave them to my wife my kids.
I just think there is a time and a place for everything,

Let me know when you would like to hear my opera music I will be right over with my ghetto blaster.
 
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