Written & Performed by Jill Vice
Co-creators: Dave Dennison & David Ford
Directed by David Ford
Come to HAPPY’S! Meet the bartender, Candy, three of her regular, hard-drinking customers, the lascivious bar owner and an assortment of other saloon denizens. Ponder the magic forces that keep a drunk on his bar stool! Honor acts of alcohol-induced courage! Celebrate the traditions of the bar that transform a bunch of lonely drunks into a loving family! And mostly join Candy in her efforts to keep her favorite regular from drinking himself to death.
With her remarkable physical performance skills, Jill brings to life 14 characters in this hilarious and touching send up of American Bar Culture.
“Tipped & Tipsy” performed to 5 sold out houses and won best of fringe at the 2013 San Francisco Fringe Festival. Robert Avila of the Bay Guardian says, “Without set or costume changes, Vice proves a protean physical performer, seamlessly inhabiting the oddball outcasts lined up before bartender Candy… With a love of the underdog and strong writing and acting at its core, Tipsy breezes by, leaving a superlative buzz.”
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Artist Biography
Jill Vice began studying performance art at the San Francisco Art Institute with Tony Labat. She trained in circus and clown with Jeff Raz at the San Francisco Circus Center Class of 2009 and studied mime and mask with Leonard Pitt and James Donlon in the first year Flying Actors Studio Class of 2010. A graduate of A.C.T.’s Summer Training Congress, Jill’s background includes a wide array of performances in physical comedy, mime, clown, improv, and film. She played the lead in a short film called “Last Trip To Spain” which won for “best short” at the Portland Maine Film Festival. She once toured the UK as the lead singer and guitarist in a punk band called Chester. Vice has bartended at over 28 bars and clubs in San Francisco and recently did a piece for the Porchlight Storytelling series, “Kitchen Confidential”. Her current project, “Tipped & Tipsy” has been performed at the Chicago Fringe Festival 2012, the Rogue Festival 2013, and won BEST OF FRINGE at the 2013 San Francisco Fringe Festival. Ms. Vice coaches solo performers and actors in physicality and movement. For more information, go to Jill Vice.com or find her on Facebook.
Show Info
60 minutes | No intermission | Ages PG 13
Runs: Thru May 17 | San Francisco
Saturdays at 5pm | Sundays 7pm
No Show: May 3, 10 & 11
Photo Credit: Christina McNeill