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title: "Josh Pickar: Getting Off | Assembly Festival"
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Law school. Death row. Clown school. Comedian and capital defense
attorney Josh Pickar's absurd take on the American death penalty,
including how one lap dance took it down. A stupidly smart show about a
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Law school. Death row. Clown school. Comedian and capital defense
attorney Josh Pickar's absurd take on the American death penalty,
including how one lap dance took it down. A stupidly smart show about a
shockingly stupid system.
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Law school. Death row. Clown school. Comedian and capital defense
attorney Josh Pickar's absurd take on the American death penalty,
including how one lap dance took it down. A stupidly smart show about a
shockingly stupid system.
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# Josh Pickar: Getting Off
Law School. Death row. Clown school.US capital defense attorney Josh Pickar spent seven years fighting against the death penalty. Then he moved to France and trained as a clown.Now he’s in Edinburgh with an absurd comedy about the American death penalty, the institutions that run it, and how one lapdance took it down.This darkly funny debut reckons with what it takes to work inside the machinery of state execution, and what it takes to leave.A stupidly smart show about a shockingly stupid system.
## Enhanced Performances - Josh Pickar: Getting Off
_Captioning performances involves displaying synchronised dialogue, lyrics and sound effects as text on screens or devices during live shows. This may be beneficial for people who are D/deaf or hard of hearing, people with learning disabilities and anyone who's first language is not the same as the language the show is performed in._
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**Captioned By:** Claire Hill
**Captioning Type: **Open
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Performance Dates
- Sunday 16th August
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