Presented By: Sid Williams Theatre Society
The Weirdest Puppet Show You’ve Ever Seen.
“Hansen turns anything and everything into a puppet and makes it funny. A MUST-SEE!”
“Utterly magical, insanely inventive, wickedly funny, BEAUTIFULLY TWISTED, and occasionally erotic! ★★★★★”
This beautifully twisted variety show is performed by Ingrid Hansen, who also puppeteers for the Jim Henson Company’s Fraggle Rock and for Sesame Workshop. Watch behind-the-scenes as SNAFU creates a live puppet film, animating cheeky vignettes in the palm of her hand and projecting them onto a huge screen.
An “enormously entertaining, one-hour madcap vaudeville show. It is chock full of riotous, naughty, and mystifying vignettes using her bare hands, her face, her mouth, tiny toys, and a doll’s head. Hansen's hands-in-motion have the kind of presence that is often attributed to the greatest stage performers, and their movement, combined with her skill for vocalization, establishes colorful characters playing out their scenarios - transfixing the audience, and creating pin-drop silence interspersed with spontaneous bursts of laughter.” - Culture Catch NYC
Surreal vignettes and 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,” (Star Phoenix).
SPICY, FOR AGE 14+.
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+.
Credits
Produced by SNAFU Society of Unexpected Spectacles
Co-Created & Directed by Britt Small
Co-Created & Performed by Ingrid Hansen
Co-Produced by, and with creative contributions from, Kathleen Greenfield
Music Composed by Hank Pine and The Merkin Sisters
Costume Design by JIMBO The Drag Clown (James Insell)
Stage Management by Kenny Streule and Andrea Lemus
Additional puppetry coaching & jokes from
Mike Petersen, Rod Peter Jr, Anand Rajaram & Victor Dolhai
