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Bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, Ms. Sugarcoat is eager to mold the young minds of the future. But university textbooks didn’t prepare her for helicopter parents, entitled high-needs students, and political correctness at the cost of telling the truth. When Pat the Beaver shows up, Ms. Sugarcoat’s delicately controlled world threatens to implode. A hilarious original show written and performed by Alice Nelson, Ms.Sugarcoat won the Audience Choice Poll at Sage Theatre’s Ignite! Festival.
Alice Nelson
Alice is an actor, playwright, director, theatre educator, puppeteer, improviser, mask maker, clown, and founder of Organized Crime Productions. Alice holds an MFA in Ensemble Created Theatre from Dell’Arte Physical Theatre School in California, and works with the renowned Loose Moose Theatre and WP Puppet Theatre. As a volunteer with Clowns Without Borders, Alice has been on four expeditions to South Africa since 2006, performing and teaching clown to children and communities whose lives have been affected by HIV/ AIDS.
See Alice Nelson’s other show Pigs in a Canoe / Petits cochons dans un canot, and catch her on the Thursday Thinking Panel and Breakfast with Sleepy Artists Panel.
www. appliedimprov.ning.com/profile/AliceNelson
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The Old Trouts return with a classic. After many years on the road in Europe, the US, and the rest of Canada, they’ve grown wrinkled and semi-feral, but they’ve come home with a promise: to cure your fear of death. Say goodbye to anxiety about difficult choices, dreaded birthdays, and desperate pleas for immortality through fame, art, or progeny. Their collection of famous scenes from the absolute best puppet shows in history, including Edward’s Last Prance, from The Ballad of Edward Grue by Samuel Groanswallow, and the unforgettable Bipsy’s Mistake, from Bipsy and Mumu Go to the Zoo by Fun Freddy, the Trouts will deconstruct your traumatized psyche and reconstruct it so death means nothing. In a way, promising ever-lasting life, through a puppet show. That’s right.
The Old Trout Puppet Workshop
In the blustery winter of 1999, with the dreaded Y2K looming, a gang of childhood friends huddled on a southern Alberta ranch, seeking mutual protection in case of apocalypse. With the simple reasoning the world will always need puppetry – even in the face of an economic and technological collapse— they founded the Old Trout Puppet Workshop, and premiered to a bunkhouse full of cowboys and Hutterites. Ever since those uncertain, savage days in the wilderness, the Old Trouts have toured the world with their puppets, written and illustrated books, crafted immense sculptures, taught eager young apprentices their secrets, and made films. The Old Trouts also form half of trance-blues band, Agnostic Mountain Gospel Choir. Next up (if the world doesn’t end), a show in a Roman amphitheatre in Lyon, France.
Visually stunning and endlessly entertaining. – LA Times
One of the best shows of the year… not to be missed. -The Globe & Mail
www.theoldtrouts.org
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An original and highly imaginative piece that succeeds in creating a delicate and beautiful theatrical world. –Shai Bar Yaakov, Yediot Arohonot
From the depth of unspeakable memories..
Through a haunted gaze, a cabaret singer tells the story of three sisters forced to hide in a tiny cold room during the Holocaust. Waiting for their mother to return, the sisters try preserving a shadow of the life they once knew. While reality’s falling apart, they create a fantastic and absurd world, proving imagination can’t be silenced even in the darkest times. Swinging between musical cabaret and contemporary puppetry for adults, humor and tragedy are woven together for a powerful theatrical experience.
Yael Rasooly and Yaara Goldring (Israel)
Since meeting as students of the School of Visual Theater in Jerusalem, directors Yael Rasooly and Yaara Goldring have developed compelling object and puppet theater for adult audiences. Their images and stories juxtapose a delicate pairing of humour with a terrifying situation.
Hazira Performance Art Arena (Jerusalem, Israel)
Encompassing theater, dance, video arts, and multimedia, HaZira is an important artistic institution unique to the heart of Israel’s local cultural discourse
Ce spectacle a été réalisé avec le soutien de la Fondation Azrieli
This production has been realised with the support of the Azrieli Foundation
www.yaelrasooly.com | www.hazira.org.il
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Conjuring images of juke joints and out-of-body-experiences.
Join us for a rip-snortin’ fundraiser for the International Festival of Animated Objects. Play games and win fabulous prizes in Carnival Alley. Music by Muerte Pan Alley and Domestic Bear. Food by Devour Catering. Beer Sampling by Village Brewery. Guitarist Bob Keelaghan and drummer Jason Woolley (half of Agnostic Mountain Gospel Choir) are joined by virtuoso bassist Rob Oxoby, to stomp big holes in the floorboards as Muerte Pan Alley.
Power, more precisely, powerful is what lunges out from a wailing, slide guitar and howling vocals…brutal and glorious at the same time. –Beatroute Magazine
www.muerte-pan.com
