The Boxcutter Cabaret

Thu. Mar 27, 2008 at 7:30pm

Plus! Sweet music from our collected brass and string ensembles to tickle your ears and pick up your bones. And! Feast your eyes on the bell-strapped “Leo the Human Xylophone!” shaking his way deep into the heart of America.
And, if the shows aren’t enough, don’t miss the traveling Cheap Art Gallery and Store. Jam packed with original prints, posters, paintings, subversive booklets and zines.

a TOUR DE FORCE featuring:

MODERN TIMES THEATER: puppet shows for the street, the school, the barn, the pasture and the subway. The shows convey a general dissatisfaction with post-modern convenience and promote a return to old-timey difficulty.

R.P.M. PUPPET CONSPIRACY: stinky garbage men with trashy ideas that are designed to expose and tear down this apocalyptic vision of global capitalism’s disposable planet.

the DOLLY WAGGLERS: offer up a new low in lowbrow puppet entertainment, the crankiest crankyshows, and cantastorias painted on the dirty sheets of America

Featured puppet shows include:

The Story of the Tiny Mouse and the Tiny Cat In this short show a tiny mouse is confronted with the familiar dilemma of the powerful withholding the basic necessities from the powerless. What can a mouse do when a cat won’t allow him to eat? Or bargain? With a twisted ending find out what options a little mouse has when he is backed into a corner by a not-so-tiny cat.

The Wonderful and Gruesome Drama of Punch and Judy Punch and Judy are hungry but the fridge is empty! Where the hell does food come from, anyway? Puppetry’s favorite jerk and his loudmouth wife lead us into the bowels of the constipated American food nightmare. Complete with swinging rolling pins and flying apples, as well as the dramatic slaughter of the USDA, the milk inspector and a Bio-Tech Nazi. A morality play for paper mache wads featuring a manifesto for free stomachs.

members/students $5, general $7

filed under: art, craft, performance, political, theater.