Truth or Dare With Pepè
Truth or Dare With Pepè
Heidi Dog Productions
Special guests Miss Sammy, Jeff Jones and Margo Knight
The Peacock Room, Orlando FL</strong>
Start with Ambiguous, move on to Swishy, pass though Obvious, and somewhere north of Flaming you’ll find the pseudo Latin Pepè and his safety orange mowhawk. Mr. Pepè first appeared at a Fringe Festival a few years ago and put minor local celebrities on stage and convinced them to tell us sordid fact about their lives, or perform a lewd activity they pray will never land on YouTube. The results are hilarious, and the show lives on, wandering from venue to venue. Tonight it docks at the Peacock Room with Miss Sammy, local comedian Jeff Jones, and the head of United Arts, Margot knight. The show begins with free shots.
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A certain amount of booze always enhances comedy, and with the audience slightly lit Pepè assumes his faux leopard skin snuggy and starts grilling less-than-innocent bystanders about the dirty little secrets in their lives. Thanks to the power of Pepè, those questions go way beyond what you could get away with, even in impolite conversation. Guest host Missy Sammy sported an orange chiffon dress and acts as straight man to Pepè’s lunacy, and the first victim was a young woman who had to put a condom on a floppy rubber creature know as “Whiskey Dick.” Jeff Jones received the treatment next; his dare involved removing the bra from a blow up doll while he was blind folded. Rather than just let the air out of his date of the moment, he went through the contortions every adolescent male tries, and eventually succeeded by turning her upside down and backwards. Margot Knight formed the climax of the show. She’s pillar of the Arts Community and a woman with some a few bra removal stories of her own, but she got off easy with a little exotic dancing. Pepè then passed out another shot, plugged some upcoming events, and got Zach the Shot Boy to strip. It’s not high class, but highly entertaining.
Pepè serves as Orlando’s free lance Court Jester. With a bizarre costume and over the top persona, he takes liberties with his audience that no one could take in real life. All the things you want to say about sex and gender and race but dare not, he has free reign to ridicule and point out with no fear. The only rule is “whatever Pepè does to anyone else, he can do to you.” Its cathartic and he’ll pass out a few drinks to numb the embarrassment. That’s the Pepè way.
For more information on Pepè visit http://www.thepeacockroom.com/ or www.myspace.com/heididogproductions
