King Friday’s Dungeon – A Puppet Slam!
King Friday’s Dungeon meets annually at Mayo Street Arts as part of the national Puppet Slam Network created by Heather Henson. Puppet artists from around the area perform pieces of puppet theater that are new, edgy, adult-themed, and works in progress.
On Friday May 23 and Saturday May 24 at 7 PM, come see the newest edition of King Friday’s Dungeon Puppet Slam! Featuring the following acts:
- Madison Cripps (Cripps Creations from Northfield, MA) — Earl the Pearl
- Libby Schap (Brzezinski & Schap from Waltham, MA) — Say Mama
- Sonya Sobieski (Crooked Square Puppetry from New York, NY) — The American Theater is Alive and Well
…who will be joined by seven other artists from here in Southern Maine:
- Issac Atkins — Patchwork Girl
- Aubrey Calaway — The Sock Who Became a Glove
- Luke Myers — A Cry for Kelp
- C.J. Opperthauser — Faux / Fox
- Adam Phillips — Puppet in Black
- Tophat Productions — ABC Café Scene from “Les Miserables”
- The Ultimate Team — Thunder is the Song of Lightening: Tale of Toot
Check out the web program for this event here
Funding is made possible in part by the HBH fund.
Why King Friday’s Dungeon? King Friday, post-monarch, deposed and living in squalor beneath an old vaudeville house hath requestedeth new puppet works and puppet works-in-progress for an impromptu, after-hours, puppet-roadhouse show. Pieces shall be edgy, bawdy, humorous, elegant, or bizarre. Object theater, canastoria, and ventriloquism are likely candidates too. Come romp through the netherrealms of puppet and object theater with K.F.