“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! ★★★★★” - Free Press.
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
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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,” (the Star Phoenix Newspaper.)
RUNTIME
75 mins. No intermission.
VENUE
PRICE
Pay-What-You-Can-Afford
($20/$30/$40)
SEATING
General Admission Stadium Seating
AUDIENCE NOTES
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+
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