Famous Puppet Death Scenes

Conceived, created, constructed and performed
by the Old Trout Puppet Workshop

Friday, June 22, Saturday, June 23, and
Sunday, June 24, 2007 – 7:30 p.m.
Margaret Greenham Theatre
Tickets: Adult $19  
Student / Senior/Child / Arts Lovers $15

Famous Puppet Death Scenes will challenge everything you thought you knew about mortality — and about puppets. The Old Trouts and their consistently inventive approach to puppetry promise nothing less than to cure your fear of death. No more anxiety about difficult choices, no more dreading birthdays, no more desperate pleas for immortality through fame, art or progeny. Through a collection of famous scenes culled from the absolute best puppet shows in history, the Old Trouts will deconstruct your traumatized psyche and reconstruct you so that death means nothing to you anymore. In a way, they promise ever-lasting life — through a puppet show. Scenes include an existential brutalization in a German children’s television show, a tragic murder in a Black Forest fairy tale, a Neo-realist play about the Irish working class, a science fiction investigation into mortality, a funeral ritual from some forgotten Japanese island, a segment of a seven-hour-long Norwegian production in which nothing happens, and many others — all brought together my a Master of Ceremonies who is himself a puppet sensing his own impending mortality. One of the strangest and most compelling performances of the year, Famous Puppet Death Scenes premiered in 2006 and has toured to rave reviews throughout Canada.

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