The Alaskan Epic

The Alaskan Epic

Joe is a frequently misunderstood clownish character who lives in Singapore. He decides to run away to Alaska, and there he meets many people who remind him of his journey in life. The show tracks his inner life, and his whimsical way of seeing the world.

The Alaskan Epic is a solo performance that follows Joe, a gentle, disarming figure whose journey from Southeast Asia to rural Alaska unfolds as a series of encounters with people, animals, memory, and myth. Blending text, movement, song fragments, and clown-like physicality, the piece navigates innocence and unease, care and control, humour and darkness.

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Joe speaks plainly, often playfully, yet what emerges is a shifting terrain of displacement, masculinity, intimacy, and inherited wounds. As the audience attempts to understand and categorise him, the work quietly resists resolution, turning the act of spectatorship itself into part of the experience.

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Drawing on physical theatre traditions like Lecoq, minimal scenography as part of Poor Man's theatre, and a raw, present performance style, The Alaskan Epic invites the audience into an empathetic encounter. Meaning is not delivered, but discovered.

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At once intimate and unsettling, tender and ambiguous, the work asks: how do we look at others, how do we label love, and what happens when certainty fails?

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Devastatingly simple, and effective. Joe is the loneliness in all of us, naive, simple, and he is also alone on stage. Does Alaska change Joe? Or does Joe change Alaska? Come and watch the show to find out!