PUPPET FICTION
”EVERYBODY BE COOL, THIS IS A F**KING PUPPET SHOW!”
3 ACTORS. 20 MARIONETTES. ONE BAT SHIT CRAZY SHOW.
A tabletop comedy parody puppet show with three actors and 20 marionettes.
Having performed the show over 250 times, to packed audiences across New Zealand and Australia Present Company Live are thrilled to bring the puppets back to the Laughing Horse Free Festival at Edinburgh Fringe 2017, performing in the ballroom at The Counting House every day at 4.15pm (except Mondays).
It’s been 23 years since Pulp Fiction was released in 1994 and became an instant cult classic. A genre-busting and seven-time Oscar nominated film about the lives of two mob hit men, a boxer, a gangster's wife, and a pair of diner bandits as they intertwined in four tales of violence and redemption.
It's been 5.5 years since Puppet Fiction was first performed and was also an instant surprise hit! Playing homage to the mighty film, with 40cm tall replicates of the main characters. Obviously the concept of puppets dealing with, and dealing out such violence, humour, love, lust, drugs, signs from God, heavy and eccentric dialogue is enthralling, curious and automatically hilarious.
Adding to the experience is the joy of live puppetry; a stuck jaw, awkward effects, the tangle of strings during a love scene. The cast of three, award winning Anya Tate-Manning, with Ralph McCubbin-Howell (Trick of the Light), and legendary comedian James Nokise, will triumph over every pending disaster while portraying all of your favourite characters, under the direction of Hannah Clarke.
“The tight team work hard beneath their relaxed exteriors. It’s a big and arguably insane task they have taken on”
John Smythe, Theatreview.
The film has been broken down into the main storylines and each day a 50 minute slice of the film will be played out. Come for one slice or come three times for the whole pie.
https://tickets.edfringe.com/whats-on/puppet-fiction
Laughing Horse @
The Counting House
Edinburgh Fringe Free Festival
Venue 170
38 West Nicolson St
Edinburgh
4.15pm
6 - 27 August 2017
(no show Monday's)
3 ACTORS. 20 MARIONETTES. ONE BAT SHIT CRAZY SHOW.
A tabletop comedy parody puppet show with three actors and 20 marionettes.
Having performed the show over 250 times, to packed audiences across New Zealand and Australia Present Company Live are thrilled to bring the puppets back to the Laughing Horse Free Festival at Edinburgh Fringe 2017, performing in the ballroom at The Counting House every day at 4.15pm (except Mondays).
It’s been 23 years since Pulp Fiction was released in 1994 and became an instant cult classic. A genre-busting and seven-time Oscar nominated film about the lives of two mob hit men, a boxer, a gangster's wife, and a pair of diner bandits as they intertwined in four tales of violence and redemption.
It's been 5.5 years since Puppet Fiction was first performed and was also an instant surprise hit! Playing homage to the mighty film, with 40cm tall replicates of the main characters. Obviously the concept of puppets dealing with, and dealing out such violence, humour, love, lust, drugs, signs from God, heavy and eccentric dialogue is enthralling, curious and automatically hilarious.
Adding to the experience is the joy of live puppetry; a stuck jaw, awkward effects, the tangle of strings during a love scene. The cast of three, award winning Anya Tate-Manning, with Ralph McCubbin-Howell (Trick of the Light), and legendary comedian James Nokise, will triumph over every pending disaster while portraying all of your favourite characters, under the direction of Hannah Clarke.
“The tight team work hard beneath their relaxed exteriors. It’s a big and arguably insane task they have taken on”
John Smythe, Theatreview.
The film has been broken down into the main storylines and each day a 50 minute slice of the film will be played out. Come for one slice or come three times for the whole pie.
https://tickets.edfringe.com/whats-on/puppet-fiction
Laughing Horse @
The Counting House
Edinburgh Fringe Free Festival
Venue 170
38 West Nicolson St
Edinburgh
4.15pm
6 - 27 August 2017
(no show Monday's)
Puppet Fiction was originally performed in the Pit Bar at BATS Theatre as part of the NZ Fringe 2012. It then returned for a sell out winter season in July 2012, played packed out shows in the Auckland (NZ) and Adelaide (Aus) fringes in 2013, clocked it's 100th performance in Dunedin Fringe, sweated it's way through blistering heat in Perth for Fringe World, popped up in the NZ Comedy Festival and the World Buskers Festival made occasional appearances around Wellington, clocked 200 shows and managed the ultimate challenge of Edinburgh Fringe in 2015, came back in 2016 and is there again in 2017!
