[NEohioPAL] HACK and SLASH Comedy Show coming to Akron

[John Davis]

The Two man comedy swordfighting team seen in 16 countries and over four
thousand live performances is coming to Weathervane Playhouse for Only three
performances July 9th and Tenth! Contact Weathervane Playhouse for more
information: (330) 836-2626.

Hack and Slash have performed over 4,000 shows in sixteen countries  and
created original stage productions which have played to sold out crowds and
raised tens of thousands of dollars for their charities like the Make-A-Wish
Foundation, Johns Hopkins Children’s Center, The Hurricane Katrina Relief
Fund and the U.S.O. Through the company’s work, touring with the U.S.O.,
they have recently adopted an orphanage in Djibouti, Africa.

Hack and Slash has performed as headliners at Renaissance Festivals all over
the U.S. and Canada including festivals in Maryland, Georgia, Texas,
Wisconsin, North Carolina, Ontario, Virginia, Florida and Ohio. Hack and
Slash have made hundreds of national and regional television and radio
appearances including NPR, the Discovery Channel, numerous news programs,
talk shows, commercials and a video game which sold over a million copies.
There is currently a television series in development for the Canadian
market based on the Hack and Slash character Barry Croaker.

Hack and Slash believe in the power of laughter to support stress relief and
conflict resolution. The Hack and Slash Theatre Company has made six tours
to entertain the deployed troops since 9-11. These tours are the subject of
their award-winning comedy-documentary, Operation Swashbuckle.

Davis and Humm have collectively directed six Renaissance festivals and
taught comedy and safe stage combat at dozens of major universities,
colleges and professional training programs. Each year, Hack and Slash host
special events such as the very popular Hack and Slash Christmas Special,
the Musical!, an original, full-length version of Charles Dickens a
Christmas Carol and the Action Hero Boot Camp which allows participants to
experience the "action-hero-arts" of swordplay, Hollywood fist fights,
bullwhip cracking, skydiving, action hero gunplay and more in a safe, fun
environment.

Classic live Hack and Slash shows feature hilarious two-man, Shakespearean,
comedy swordfighting, at once epitomizing the characters of the
swashbuckling action hero and the hopeless but happy fool. Their shows pit
them against one another in a non-stop, steel-ringing, joke cracking,
hand-kissing, projectile-dodging, ale-swilling, collect-calling,
sister-kissing extravaganza of raucous jackenapery! ("Honey, keep your
sticky fingers off of my nice clean jackenaperies!") Shakespearean wit and
banter, action swordplay and outrageous stunts ranging from whips and guns
to crossbows and cabbages are the order of business as Sir Nigel Hack, "the
richest most handsome knight in the realm, gentleman adventurer and god
among men" and Slash Montant, "squire for hire, constant soldier, sometime
poet, not nearly often enough lover and fashion-plate deity" weave their
tangled web of deceit, trickery, violence and comedy upon one another; a web
that the audience is sure to become ensnared by! (If you want to get
metaphorical and end your sentence in a preposition and use italics on the
word "and" several times before it's all over.)

What’s new in the future of the Hack and Slash Theatre Company?
The Company will soon begin touring it’s brand new theatre show, The Hack
and Slash Shakespeare Massacre. The show will feature the best classic Hack
and Slash comedy and action routines, as well as "Bear Baiting" and never
before seen action sequences. The show’s plot will reveal their deep
personal hatred of the man know to most as the immortal bard William
Shakespeare. Also fully disclosed will be Hack and Slash’s history as Bill
"Ooh aren’t I so very clever, your majesty" Shakespeare’s under-rated but
immensely popular opening act. A DVD of this show will also be forthcoming.



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