Beer and Puppets This Sunday the 25th
Posted: Wed Apr 07, 2004 10:31 am
The Effing Piebald Fruitcake Puppet Theater presents
an encore video presentation of
“ Satanarchy ” and “ Mental ”
plus the debut of two all new shows:
“ The Lonesome Cowpoke ” and
“ Screwed The Pooch ”
Sunday, April 25th at 9PM (sharp)
at The Pilot Light in the Old City.
18+, $5
http://www.fruitcakepuppet.com
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History of The Effing Piebald Fruitcake Puppet Theater
The Effing Piebald Fruitcake Puppet Theater has been producing one-of-a-kind, full-on puppet mania since 1996. Thousands of delighted, enthralled, carbon-based life forms have been rushed to emergency rooms across this great nation of ours in order to have their funny bones mended after being comedically way-layed by our mind-bending puppet spectacles. The E.P.F.P.T is committed to delivering the highest quality lunacy possible to the puppet show starved masses.
Reviews of the plays we'll be showing:
"The Lonesome Cowpoke"
Its full-on puppet mania in the Wild West! A grizzled, old cowboy follows a lost cow up the wrong canyon and winds up in the amoral, consumer wasteland that we lovingly call “America.” Frontier dreams of “manifest destiny” degenerate into modern nightmares of strip malls and botox treatment centers! Hilarious! This show was a return to larger puppets and ambitious special effects that had the audience in stitches one minute, and scooping their jaws off the floor the next. If Louis Lamour had eaten jimson weed and gone to K-Mart he might have pecked something like this into his laptop.
"Screwed the Pooch"
An updated odd couple for the millennium. Bonko Absurdafitz, an egomaniacal “action” painter, and his Eastern European roommate, Frido, conspire to find a sucker to rent their walk-in closet. The challenge is to hide the meth lab, the chicken coop, and the personality disorders from the applicants. When Valerie Castrata moves in, a love triangle develops culminating in the inevitable, tragic ending. Claim to fame: the only puppet show to explore the ways in which a severed penis can be used to further the aesthetic goals of abstract expressionism.
"Satanarchy"
More hand-puppet hijinx as we explore the wacky world of satanic cults. This pint-size shocker has got it all: abuse of Jehovah’s Witnesses, gay S&M, pagan chicken sacrifice, and, of course, a black mass that summons the Devil himself. All played for laughs. Think if Goethe had been listening to Slayer and drinking sterno while writing his classic play Faust. Satanarchy is so timelessly hilarious, that investigative journalists are to this day analyzing how it single-handedly corrupted Western Civilization.
"Mental"
The sickest E.P.F.P.T show ever. This hillbilly psycho drama bypasses clever satire and heads straight for mean spirited mockery. But that doesn’t mean it ain’t funny! Watch as Barney, Amanda, Randy, and Tina Nutt shovel up every southern stereotype and feed it into the comedic wood chipper, spraying out a gas-huffing, bible-thumping, cross-burning mess guaranteed to offend and entertain. This play showcases the scaled back, hand-puppet mis en scene that redefined puppet theater for a generation. If Flannery O’Connor ate mushrooms and appeared as a guest on Hee Haw, this would be the result.
an encore video presentation of
“ Satanarchy ” and “ Mental ”
plus the debut of two all new shows:
“ The Lonesome Cowpoke ” and
“ Screwed The Pooch ”
Sunday, April 25th at 9PM (sharp)
at The Pilot Light in the Old City.
18+, $5
http://www.fruitcakepuppet.com
-----------------------------------------------------------
History of The Effing Piebald Fruitcake Puppet Theater
The Effing Piebald Fruitcake Puppet Theater has been producing one-of-a-kind, full-on puppet mania since 1996. Thousands of delighted, enthralled, carbon-based life forms have been rushed to emergency rooms across this great nation of ours in order to have their funny bones mended after being comedically way-layed by our mind-bending puppet spectacles. The E.P.F.P.T is committed to delivering the highest quality lunacy possible to the puppet show starved masses.
Reviews of the plays we'll be showing:
"The Lonesome Cowpoke"
Its full-on puppet mania in the Wild West! A grizzled, old cowboy follows a lost cow up the wrong canyon and winds up in the amoral, consumer wasteland that we lovingly call “America.” Frontier dreams of “manifest destiny” degenerate into modern nightmares of strip malls and botox treatment centers! Hilarious! This show was a return to larger puppets and ambitious special effects that had the audience in stitches one minute, and scooping their jaws off the floor the next. If Louis Lamour had eaten jimson weed and gone to K-Mart he might have pecked something like this into his laptop.
"Screwed the Pooch"
An updated odd couple for the millennium. Bonko Absurdafitz, an egomaniacal “action” painter, and his Eastern European roommate, Frido, conspire to find a sucker to rent their walk-in closet. The challenge is to hide the meth lab, the chicken coop, and the personality disorders from the applicants. When Valerie Castrata moves in, a love triangle develops culminating in the inevitable, tragic ending. Claim to fame: the only puppet show to explore the ways in which a severed penis can be used to further the aesthetic goals of abstract expressionism.
"Satanarchy"
More hand-puppet hijinx as we explore the wacky world of satanic cults. This pint-size shocker has got it all: abuse of Jehovah’s Witnesses, gay S&M, pagan chicken sacrifice, and, of course, a black mass that summons the Devil himself. All played for laughs. Think if Goethe had been listening to Slayer and drinking sterno while writing his classic play Faust. Satanarchy is so timelessly hilarious, that investigative journalists are to this day analyzing how it single-handedly corrupted Western Civilization.
"Mental"
The sickest E.P.F.P.T show ever. This hillbilly psycho drama bypasses clever satire and heads straight for mean spirited mockery. But that doesn’t mean it ain’t funny! Watch as Barney, Amanda, Randy, and Tina Nutt shovel up every southern stereotype and feed it into the comedic wood chipper, spraying out a gas-huffing, bible-thumping, cross-burning mess guaranteed to offend and entertain. This play showcases the scaled back, hand-puppet mis en scene that redefined puppet theater for a generation. If Flannery O’Connor ate mushrooms and appeared as a guest on Hee Haw, this would be the result.