Epidermis Circus: The Weirdest Puppet Show You've Ever Seen

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Cost: $41.00
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Co-Created & Directed by Ride the Cyclone director Britt Small
Costume by JIMBO the Drag Clown (Winner RuPaul’s Drag Race)
ASL Interpretation by Katie Anderson

Content Warning:
Epidermis Circus includes cartoonish sexual content, curse words, and puppet suicide. There are moments of dark lighting, loud music, and surprises. Recommended for Audiences age 14+
A spicy puppet cabaret, hosted by a sassy grandma who keeps trying to steal the show. This beautifully twisted variety show is performed by Ingrid Hansen, who also puppeteers for Jim Henson Company’s Fraggle Rock. Watch behind-the-scenes as Hansen performs a live puppet film, animating cheeky vignettes in the palm of her hand and projecting them onto a huge screen. “Both live and magnified on screen, in cunningly angled cameras and mirrors, we see Hansen create characters from her own hands, fingers, tongue, in a saucy and jostling vaudeville of ‘stars.’ NUTTY, INGENIOUS, MESMERIZING.” – 12th Night.

Tiny stories emerge that celebrate the hilarious impossibility of being alive and having a body: these fragile bags of meat and bone, carry us from place to place and allow us to laugh and snort and feel. SNAFU’s work has been compared to Wes Anderson and David Lynch, yet “hilarious, absurd and profoundly human, (the Star Phoenix Newspaper.)

This show is performed with ASL. The Interpreter will be positioned stage centre/left (house left).

ABOUT THE ARTIST
Hot off a tour to the most prestigious puppet festival in Montreal, Danish-Canadian puppeteer Ingrid Hansen tours her spicy puppetry cabaret after shooting 2 seasons of Fraggle Rock with the Jim Henson Company. She spent a year traipsing through Brooklyn’s parks puppeteering a big orange monster on Sesame’s new Emmy-Award-Winning series ‘Helpsters,’ alongside human actors Andrea Martin, John Oliver, Terry Crews, and Margaret Cho. At home in Victoria, Canada, Ingrid also co-creates puppet theatre with the “big kids” inside federal prisons.
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