TIMELESS WORKS OF ART
"Nobody else weds old-fashioned realist structure to working-class-hero lunacy quite this way."
"Ahonen is very funny, original, and refreshing."
"His shows are like no other. A distinctive mix of hyper realism, satire, brash violence, and unexpected tenderness."
"Ahonen's work is invigorating, refreshing, and subversively uproarious."
“Mr. Ahonen has a showman’s sensibility. He brings the populist instincts of a born entertainer.”
ABOUT AHONEN
Ahonen is an internationally celebrated playwright, theater director, and filmmaker.
Ahonen, a world-weary malcontent, has been through both the nonsensical crap and the creative joys that are associated with the art game. From self-financing to selling his soul to corporate ghouls to mutual understandings with nefarious "businessmen", Ahonen continues to do whatever it takes to bring his art to the people.
AHONEN 101: Ahonen, along with rebellious actors James Kautz and Matthew Pilieci, created THE AMORALISTS, indisputably the finest community theater company of the 21st century. The Amoralists were FAR MORE than just a physical and intellectually dangerous producer of plays who gifted the public with touching anti-establishment work, The Amoralists were a friggin scene... a personality disorder... a group of good-looking-misfits that were tenderheartedly brazen. Their plays NEVER just ended when the curtain dropped! The plays spilled out into the streets, the bars, the apartments, the drug dens, the political protests... where conversations would flow from art to politics to theology to gambling to motherhood. My god was it a beautiful scene -- the likes of which hadn't been seen in theater since the 1960's.
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