Famous Puppet Death Scenes at Woolly Mammoth Theatre

Famous Puppet Death Scenes

Woolly Mammoth Theatre
641 D St NW Washington

With Famous Puppet Death Scenes, the Old Trout Puppet Workshop aims to cure your fear of death using a little levity. No more anxiety about difficult choices, no more dreading birthdays, no more desperate pleas for immortality through fame, art, or progeny. Instead of lamenting the inevitable, the show injects a few laughs. Curated and narrated by puppet Nathaniel Tweak, the production is a collection of 22 infamous and theatrical end-of-life sequences -- ranging from an ill-fated bonk on the head to a sci-fi cryogenic freezing snafu. Performed by one of Canada's most treasured theatrical troupes, this thoroughly Woolly holiday extravaganza brings mirth to mortality.

Thru - Jan 4, 2015

Price: $35-$63

Show Type: Comedy

Running Time: 1 hr,20 mins no intermission

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Washington Post - Recommended

"...The quality of the puppeteering and puppet design is at all times excellent — the use of perspective in the outer space-bound “King Jeff the Magnificent” being especially noteworthy — and the variety of puppets gives a boost to the show’s quest for endearing surprise. It seems, though, as if the Old Trouts are better at coming up with scenarios than knowing where to take them. Which leaves you with the wish that the handiwork on the page was always as fully realized as what’s on the strings."

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- Peter Marks

DC Theater Arts - Highly Recommended

"...Ready for some comic puppet anarchy? Ready for some situational, very visual humor within nearly two dozen short puppet-driven skits? Ready to indulge into, of all things, existential takes on death?"

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- David Siegel

MetroWeekly - Highly Recommended

"...Likely the most charmingly melancholy, funny and original piece you’ll see this winter, Woolly Mammoth’s Famous Puppet Death Scenes is a kid’s play for grownups. Kid’s play because it is funny, silly and infused with fine geekery. For grownups, because, under and around the laughs, there flows a gentle but penetrating contemplation of death — the living with it, the waiting for it, and the way in which bearing witness to it becomes a rehearsal for our own."

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- Kate Wingfield

Washington City Paper - Highly Recommended

"...Were it not for our delight in whatever weird alchemical process it is that makes us empathize with a block of wood or a lump of felt or rubber that represents a sentient being—some of them don’t even appear to have eyes, for God’s sake—Famous Puppet Death Scenes would likely be too existentially horrifying to endure. As things are, it’s too wickedly gratifying to miss."

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- Chris Klimek

MD Theatre Guide - Recommended

"...There is a lyric quality to the craftsmanship of the Old Trout Puppet Workshop, and an occasional yearning in the philosophical narration. It’s a work intended for those old enough to actually consider mortality on a regular basis (and laugh at its face), but kids who come will doubtless be enchanted by default. And teens hip to the sardonic wallop of Monty Python will appreciate where it’s all coming from and will, like the adults, “care as much as possible.”"

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- Roger Catlin

DCTheatreScene - Highly Recommended

Spoiler alert: The whale dies. Edward Grue who dressed as a deer dies. The squattish bald man in his business tie dies. In Famous Puppet Death Scenes, produced by the Old Trout Puppet Workshop of Alberta, Canada, and presented at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, no puppet is spared the inevitable.

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- Jennifer Clements

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