From the "Red Clay Ramblers"
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This one-of-a-kind show, "Fool Moon", is a unique comedy featuring two grandmasters of physical lunacy in an evening of sly humor, chaos, and music with the Red Clay Ramblers. Created by Bill Irwin and David Shiner, Fool Moon was awarded a special Tony award in 1999, a Drama Desk Award for "...unique theatrical experience," and an Outer Critics Circle "Special Achievement" Award. The New York Times called the show "sensational; " Time Magazine called Irwin and Shiner "magicians of the human body. They are exquisite."

The show was first performed at Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center, New York, in the Serious Fun Festival in July 1992. As "Fool Moon," it next appeared at the Richard Rodgers Theater on Broadway for an eight-month run in 1993 (winning the Ramblers a Drama Desk nomination for Outstanding Music in a Play), then went on to set box-office records at the Doolittle Theatre in Los Angeles ('94). It played Vienna and Munich ('94), Broadway again ('95), and, in the fall of 1998, "Fool Moon" ran at ACT in San Francisco and Seattle Rep in Seattle, returned to Broadway Nov. '98-Jan. '99, and went to Washington, D.C.'s Kennedy Center for spring, 1999.

The Red Clay Ramblers are a Chapel Hill, North Carolina-based band who have brought original and traditional string band music to the concert and theatrical stage for the past 29 years. The band has appeared in more than 25 countries and has represented the US State Department on a tour of eastern Europe, sub-Saharan Africa, Syria, Jordan, Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco. The Ramblers have more than a dozen albums, with the newest due out in June, 2001, as well as an appearance with Michelle Shocked on her Grammy-nominated Arkansas Traveler. Theatrical credits include Off-Broadway's Diamond Studs with Jim Wann and Bland Simpson, and Sam Shepard's A Lie of the Mind, for which the Ramblers wrote and performed the music. The Ramblers developed Kudzu: A Southern Musical in collaboration with Pulitzer-winning cartoonist Doug Marlette. Works created for regional theatre include Lonestar Love: The Merry Wives of Windsor, Texas written with John Haber; Tommy Thompson's The Last Song of John Proffit; Jack Herrick and Bland Simpson's Cool Spring; Munci Meg and Ear Rings written with Don Baker and Lee Smith; Life on the Mississippi adapted by Bland Simpson and Tommy Thompson; and the pre-Broadway production of Roger Miller and Bill Hauptman's Big River. The Ramblers' movie credits include the score for Sam Shepard's 1989 Far North as well as the creation of music for Mr. Shepard's film, Silent Tongue, in which the group appears with Bill Irwin and David Shiner.

David Shiner is best known for his hilarious starring role in Cirque du Soleil. He has starred in both German National and Swiss National circuses, and between circus engagements, appeared in the feature films Lorenzo's Oil, Silent Tongue, and Man of the House. Mr. Shiner has made several appearances on "The Tonight Show" and is a guest director at the Wintergarden Theatre in Berlin and the Apollo Theatre in Dusseldorf.

Audiences know Bill Irwin from his extraordinary original work in Largely New York, on Broadway (five Tony Award nominations) and at The Kennedy Center, and his performance in Waiting for Godot with Robin Williams and Steve Martin. An original member of KRAKEN, a theater company directed by Herbert Blau, and an original member of San Francisco's Pickle Family Circus, he has appeared as a guest artist with Oberlin Dance Company. Mr. Irwin can be seen in the films My Blue Heaven, Eight Men Out, Popeye, and Scenes from a Mall. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship and in 1984 he became the first performing artist to receive a five-year MacArthur fellowship.