Written and performed by Debra Buonaccorsi and Steve McWilliams
Music, Mayhem, Mystery- Rude, Revisionist History. The fantastical, whimsical, gruesome, salacious, inspiring stories of Catholic Saints as told by DMLRR with rock and roll, puppetry, magic and satire. Dizzy Miss Lizzie offers their take on these unusual and extraordinary humans who defied the laws of nature and human nature. DMLRR's The Saints reimagines Catholic lore to explore the intersection of entertainment and faith.
About the Artist(s): DIZZY MISS LIZZIE’S ROADSIDE REVUE was conceived in 2008 by Debra Buonaccorsi and Steve McWilliams, Dizzy Miss Lizzie’s Roadside Revue is an interdisciplinary theatre company; “rock concert as literary satire.” DMLRR produces original works, adapting mythology and literary works into raucous, engaging, utterly modern tales, performing in the Washington DC region at venues such as Capital Fringe, the Kennedy Center Millennium Stage, Woolly Mammoth Theatre, and the Keegan Theatre and in NYC at the New York Musical Festival. In 2012, Dizzy Miss Lizzie’s Roadside Revue was awarded the Helen Hayes-John Aniello Award for Outstanding Emerging Theatre Company. DMLRR founders, Debra Buonaccorsi and Steve McWilliams, have written numerous works for the theatre including an adaptation of The Oresteia, The Brontes, Finn McCool and Flowers Stink, (a TYA work commissioned by the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts). They have also released 4 albums of original music as the Americana duo, "The TrueHearts".
For more information about DMLRR, go to facebook.com/DizzyMissLizziesRoadsideRevue
Artist(s) have also performed at the following Fringes: Capital Fringe Festival, Washington, DC
"You should know by now that, by universal consensus, Dizzy Miss Lizzie are alchemical fringe rock n' roll magic geniuses, and there's no reason to miss them. Just go already." Washington City Paper
"This being rock-and-roll, it's all done with equal parts devotion, subversion and wit. Dizzy Miss Lizzie looks so fine: The muscular, high-spirited music and appealingly casual atmosphere have no trouble creating new converts." The Washington Post