DRAGONFISH: An Underwater Grief Odyssey by Soleil Kohl

It’s your fisher-dad’s big day, and he’s ready to make you proud. But to make the catch, he’ll have to journey through fragmented memories that blur truth and fiction. Dragonfish is a multimedia collage using clown, movement, and real-life interviews to reckon with fragments of fatherhood left behind in this whirlwind debut solo that audiences are calling “hilarious,” “disarmingly strange,” and “brutal.”

WINNER of the Hollywood Fringe Exchange Award and the Denver Fringe Audience Choice Award for Solo Performance: Clowning. NOMINEE for the Hollywood Fringe Award for Solo Theatre

Written and performed by Soleil Kohl. Original sound by Yes Baby. Photo bywillscamera.com

From audiences:

“A hilarious tour de force and a masterclass in the human condition. This is why humans make art.”

“Beautiful, vulnerable, and impactful.”

“…continued to live in my brain for days after”

“Masterful performance, gripping story, emotionally devastating.”

“phenomenal. unlike any live theatre i’ve ever experienced. . . a cathartic emotional rollercoaster.”

“Incredible performance. Powerful. Intense. Unlike anything I’ve seen before."

“A brilliantly written show with clever comedy, intense drama, and striking attention to detail.”

“An expert balance between uncertainty and complete control and confidence.”

“Uncomfortable in the best way possible.”

“Disarmingly strange and unexpected. . . like if David Lynch directed a version of The Life Aquatic"

Note: This performance will be a workshop production without full staging.

Content note: Dragonfish contains sudden loud sounds and yelling, descriptions and brief depictions of violence, abuse, self-harm, suicidal thoughts/attempts, hospital/medical trauma, and possible nudity. (Soleil wants you to know that the show is also funny too)

About the artist: Soleil Kohl (she/they) is an experimental performance artist whose work spans absurdist satire, audiovisual collage, and provocative spectacle theatre. Existing in both comedy and art spaces, Soleil interweaves clowning, multimedia design, and embodied movement practices to create interactive and cathartic theatrical experiences. She has brought work across the US and abroad, and has been featured on No Proscenium and BBC Scotland.