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About Ric

Baltimore City - Bromo Tower Arts District
Ric Royer is a writer, performer, performer of writings and writer of performances.
Ric is the founder and Artistic Director of the Psychic Readings Co, a performance collective that has entertained, frightened, and confused audiences with their interdisciplinary hysterics since 1999. The company has produced their strange brand of challenging and original theatre work which has been staged at various venues in the U.S. and Europe, including the Ontological-Hysteric… more
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The Fête of Mistakes; A Sublimated Sideshow of Everyday Brutality and Sweets

In The Fête of Mistakes, Psychic Readings Co constructs an abstract fairground littered with the overwhelmingness of despair and the sustained tension of hopefulness.
It’s never really made clear, but I think the play takes place in Niagara Falls: the city so depressed it jumped over...itself. Beneath Niagara Falls hides the Cave of the Winds, the humbug attraction that blows life into the lungs of the greatest sideshow of lies called The Fête of Mistakes! It’s a love/horror story about exploitation. Or rather, a musical about the insidiousness of capitalism. Get in line to taste the sugary goodness of the American Dream! [Note: the play ends in a gruesome demolition derby where everyone dies]
Fête, written and directed by Ric Royer, has been presented three times: Ontological Hysteric Theatre (NYC, 2012), Silent Barn (NYC 2014) and Le Mondo (Baltimore, 2016)
Set design: Xander Marro and Emma Reaves
Sound design: G Lucas Crane

  • Ric rejects the treat
    Ric rejects the treat
    Ric is tempted by a sweet sweet zeppole. photo by Grace Hoellander
  • Dance of the Long Armed Lady
    Dance of the Long Armed Lady
    Fiona Crowley as "The Long Armed Lady"
  • Cave Of The Winds by Ric Royer
    Song from The Fete of Mistakes. Written and performed by Ric Royer
  • Fete intro
    Fete intro
    Ric Royer and G Lucas Crane. photo by Dave Iden.
  • Demo Derby begins
    Demo Derby begins
    Ric in the Fete of Mistakes Demolition Derby!
  • Ghost cars in the Demo Derby
    Ghost cars in the Demo Derby
    The glow-in-the-dark demo derby begins, pitting two lovers against each other in a head-to-head face-off!
  • Tragic ending
    Tragic ending
    The Long Armed Lady perishes! Better luck next time!
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