I will watch, hear, feel Bill Bowers whenever and wherever I can for the rest of my life.
He is wit, joy, wisdom, compassion incarnate,
and his physicality is the closest any of us will come to flying without wings.
CHERRY JONES
Theatre is what connects us to each other. It teaches us about life and society
and emotion, and more importantly, about ourselves.
So how do we find connection in these challenging times?
How can we find our way back into theatres and move forward together?
Solo artist Bill Bowers brings world class theatre to intimate settings, sharing his fantastic, heartfelt stories, and lets us into those stories by reflecting our own lives.
Bill Bowers is an award-winning physical actor who has performed his original solo plays all over the world. From Broadway, Off-Broadway, to theatres throughout the US, Europe, and Asia, Bill has received standing ovations, accolades, and 5- Star reviews. A student of the legendary Marcel Marceau, Bill combines physical storytelling with spoken memoir to create hilarious and heartbreaking solo theatre. As playwright John Pielmeier observes, "This fresh, utterly original and brilliantly skilled performer evokes new depths from his art form. In fact, he enlarges it. What Cirque de Soleil did for the circus, Bill Bowers does for mime." With one day of load-in and tech, these plays are ready to open at your theatre. Fully designed (sound, lighting and costume), all of Bill’s plays are easily presented on a bare stage with minimal technical requirements. And audiences love him! Bill Bowers is a real theatre artist. Working with the simplest of tools, he creates a world of poetry, meaning and deep emotion. TERRENCE MCNALLY Bill Bowers is a wonderful mixture of skill and diligence, humor and heart--a real artist for humans. He makes you laugh and cry and think, all in one swoop. Maybe he's really an angel. ANNA DEAVERE SMITH Click on the images below to find out more about each show, and visit |
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IT GOES WITHOUT SAYING
Join us for this fun and unflinching look at the life and mimes of Bill Bowers.
It Goes Without Saying takes the audience on a scenic tour of Bill's life thus far:
from growing up gay in the wilds of Montana, his outrageous jobs as a performer, studying with Marcel Marceau, and the whirlwind of working on Broadway. Bill observes the incredible power that silence can wield - whether on stage, between family members, among neighbors, or when we are alone. Bill talks (yes, talks) with sensitivity, precision, and constant humor about a life lived out loud.
The wry wit of a natural comedian, the magic of mime, and the tragedy of ‘Angels in America’ distilled into a solo show. Actor and mime artist Bill Bowers offers the audience a chronological narrative of his remarkable life story, and exquisitely conveys various characters and situations using no props whatsoever – he doesn’t need them. His act is both entertaining and deeply moving, as well as being a lesson in personal history, from the trail his Scottish ancestors took across America, to the Cold War locked-down mindset of his family in the 50s, to the infamous HIV epidemic of the 80s; the latter in which he suffered a great loss.
This powerful show is a rare privilege to watch.
A 5 Star review from 3 Weeks Magazine, Edinburgh Fringe Review
BEYOND WORDS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6l_VbQXU_c
One the most acclaimed multi-disciplinary artists in America today, Bill Bowers employs an eloquent mixture of music, monologues and mime in his on-going investigation of the silence surrounding the enigmatic matters of gender in our culture today. Often compared to Chaplin and Keaton Bowers has performed throughout the U.S., Europe, and Asia. With both audacity and compassion, he explores what it means to be a boy and the messages we receive on our way to becoming men. It is an inclusive montage that celebrates maleness and humanity in capacious terms rather than any narrow punitive viewpoint that diminished us all