Key City Theatre presents:
Epidermis Circus By SNAFU 14+
Co-created and Directed by Britt Small
Co-created and Performed by Ingrid Hansen
Big Ticket Plus: $22
Big Ticket: $26
Regular: $32
Epidermis Circus
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’. NUTTY, INGENIOUS, MESMERIZING.” - 12th Night. Costumes by JIMBO (winner of RuPaul’s Drag Race.) SPICY, FOR AGES 14+.
“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 -- transfixing the audience, and creating pin-drop silence interspersed with spontaneous bursts of laughter.” - Culture Catch NYC
“CRITIC’S CHOICE ★★★★★” - All About Solo NYC
“A GENIUS OF PHYSICAL COMEDY.” - Entertainment World “HILARIOUS. Her physicality is impeccable.” - Star Phoenix News
“Unbelievably charismatic.” - The Charlebois Post
“Remarkable feats of puppetry.” - CBC
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.)
Warning: Cartoonish sexual content, swear words, puppet suicide. Dark lighting, loud music, and surprises. SPICY, FOR AGES 14+
Don't miss out on this unique, laugh-out-loud experience! Secure your tickets now for a night of hilarity and jaw-dropping puppetry.
ABOUT THE ARTIST:
Hot off a tour to the most prestigious puppet festival in Montreal, Danish-Canadian puppeteer Ingrid Hansen tours her spicy puppetry cabaret after shooting 2 seasons of Fraggle Rock with the Jim Henson Company. She spent a year traipsing through Brooklyn’s parks puppeteering a big orange monster on Sesame’s new Emmy-Award-Winning series ‘Helpsters,’ alongside human actors Andrea Martin, John Oliver, Terry Crews, and Margaret Cho. At home in Victoria, Canada, Ingrid also co-creates puppet theatre with the “big kids” inside federal prisons.
SHOW 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
Costume Design by JIMBO The Drag Clown (James Insell)
Additional puppetry coaching & jokes from
Mike Petersen, Rod Peter Jr, Anand Rajaram & Victor Dolhai
Epidermis Circus was created with support from the Capital Regional District Arts Council and the Canada Council for the Arts. 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.