Suitable Transpo
A Junk Puppet Spectacle
July 14-16th 2023 SKAMpede Central Tour
SKAMpede: Theatre SKAM’s family-friendly live performance festival in Victoria
A dozen theatre companies from Victoria performed ten-minute shows in various spaces around the Galloping Goose trail, Songhees Park, and Songhees Walkway, July 2023.
Show description
A dark and whimsical junk-art puppetry installation reflecting on the cycles of life and death. From a distance, a suitcase-laden bicycle approaches, piloted by puppeteers, musicians, and clowns. The suitcases open up to reveal little homemade worlds, and the puppet show begins.
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SHOWS ON THE CENTRAL TOUR:
Site 1 – Sarah Hin Ching U’s “Stratum”: “Stratum” is a performance installation interlacing dance and textile art. The installation created by Aynaz Parkas resembles a nest, and is composed of long stripes of earth tones silk and mesh fabric that intercross, interlays, hangs, and knots on each other. Together with intricate choreography by Sarah U, “Stratum” highlights 2 dancers, Sarah U and Jacqueline Ritter, who are long-time collaborators connected by their passion in contemporary dance and partner work.
Site 2 – Salty Broad Productions’ “(You’re Invited To) Mary’s Very Beary Special Teddy Bear Picnic”: Mary is planning the greatest teddy bear picnic EVER, but when Mags is the only one to show up, things start to come apart at the seams. A silly, short play teaching us to embrace mess and dive whole heartedly into the things we love!
Site 3 – Green Hummingbird Productions’ “Dawn of the Hermit Crab”: A hermit crab struggles to search for a suitable shell to use as a home for a lot of its life, but you don’t have to be a decapod with a soft non-calcified exoskeleton to also struggle to find home. Dawn of the Hermit Crab takes a peek at the encounter of an eccentric sea-life enthusiast schoolteacher and a rowdy teen who is carrying a big weight. In between slinging insults at each other, the two find that they are able to form an understanding and connection.
Site 4 – SNAFU Society of Unexpected Spectacles’ “Suitable Transpo: A Junk Puppet Spectacle”: A dark and whimsical junk-art puppetry installation reflecting on the cycles of life and death. From a distance, a suitcase-laden bicycle approaches, piloted by puppeteers, musicians, and clowns. The suitcases open up to reveal little homemade worlds, and the puppet show begins.
Pic of a pregnant clown smiling in the sun by photographer Pedro M. Siqueira
Pic of a clown in a tutu holding a butterfly by photographer Pedro M. Siqueira
Black and white pic of clowns making funny faces at the camera by photographer Pedro M. Siqueira
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