DURATION 60 minutes / General audience, 14 years +
“Utterly magical, insanely inventive, wickedly funny, BEAUTIFULLY TWISTED, and occasionally erotic! ★★★★★” – Free Press
“GENIUS PHYSICAL COMEDY!” – Entertainment World
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.)
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.
Ingrid was born and raised in Kelowna BC by gregarious Danish immigrants. She grew up stealing apples from the neighbor’s orchard, tubing down Mission Creek. She spent every summer of her childhood eating fresh cherries and peaches until she exploded, and she always, always, misses Okanagan fruit.
Creative Team:
- 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)
- Interstitial Film Editing by Pedro M. Siqueira, PedrinXCo.
- Additional puppetry coaching & jokes from
- Mike Petersen, Rod Peter Jr, Anand Rajaram & Victor Dolhai
Epidermis Circus is co-presented with the Rotary Centre for the Arts
