Epidermis Circus

The weirdest puppet show you've ever seen
From SNAFU Society of Unexpected Spectacles

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’. 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).

Directed by Britt Small (premiere director of Ride the Cyclone), with costumes by JIMBO (winner of RuPaul’s Drag Race), performed by Ingrid Hansen (puppeteer for The Jim Henson Company’s Fraggle Rock and Sesame).

“Utterly magical, insanely inventive, wickedly funny, BEAUTIFULLY TWISTED, and occasionally erotic! ★★★★★” - Free Press.

“Surpassing the world of the weird, the zany antics of Epidermis Circus live in a universe of absolutely absurd. CRITIC’S CHOICE NYC. ★★★★★” - Jaycie Buben, All About Solo NY

Epidermis Circus was created with support from the Capital Regional District Arts Council and the Canada Council for the Arts, and tours with the support of the BC Arts Council. Early development of Epidermis Circus was also supported by the National Arts Centre's #CanadaPerforms initiative, and the OAC’s Theatre Creators Reserve as recommended by the Puppetmongers.