With neither a brain cell nor common language between them, Peenut & Ribbòn, two obnoxious but loveable hooligans, search for the stolen Zanniskinhead grail: The Holy Balls. Commedia dell’Arte gets a 21st century face-lift in this unique comedy packed with slapstick, stand-up, storytelling and stupidity, not forgetting an atomic bomb. Loud, rude, joyous, irreverent, violent & triumphant: a must see in 2011.
The Zanniskinheads and the Quest for the Holy Balls is based on the modern Commedia dell’Arte characters & masks invented by Antonio Fava, and represent his most extreme work in the continuance of this 450 year-old comic art form. Keeping one foot in the tradition of Renaissance Commedia and the other in the rigourous energy of contemporary culture, Antonio Fava proves once and for all that the Commedia dell’Arte lives on today.
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Written by Christopher Hawes, Jean-Luc Grandin & Antonio Fava
Directed by and based on the masks & characters invented by Antonio Fava
Cast & Creatives
Peenut: 
Ribbòn:
Director &
Mask Designer:
Sound Designer:
Lighting Designer:
Props Designer:
Set Designer:
Dance Associate:
Photography:
Video Editor:
“CERTAIN: THEY HAVE THE RAGE OF PLAYING... SCIENTISTS OF LAUGHTER”
Le Temps
Headline Press, Geneva
Zanniskinheads Tour 2011
July 13th-14th, 8pm
July 16th, 11am
August 4th - 28th, 8.05pm daily (not 15th)
September 27th, 7.15pm
September 28th. 1.30pm & 7.30pm
September 29th, 4.30pm
October 3rd, 7.45pm
October 5th, 7.30pm
October 6th, 8pm
October 7th, 8pm
October 11th, 4.45pm
October 12th-13th, 1pm & 7pm
October 17th, 7,30pm
Christopher Hawes
Jean-Luc Grandin
Antonio Fava
Jean Keraudren
Jean-Michelle Broillet
Leah Babel
Lewis Campbell aka Lost Monkey
Stuart Neal
Dominic Reichel, Marcella Fava
Nicholas Veuthey
