Puppet Show

Ticket Booth

Yesterday I went to go see Little Cathy Takes on The Big Potato, performance art that combines puppetry, video, silhouette and actors. Little Cathy and The Big Potato have a bit of conflict, so Little Cathy  goes to the forest. She  gains wisdom from animals and goes home to confront The Big Potato. (I don’t want to give too much away, much more happens.)

I kept thinking: what am I watching? This is amazing.

The puppets were well made, there was an opportunity after to look closer at them. I got excited (maybe too excited) to see the craftsmanship. I saw Little Cathy, baby potatoes – which maybe me go “awww”, a beaver, a turtle and puppets made of vertebrate. Yup, spine.

I was impatient at first that it took around a minute between scenes for the actors to arrange the set. I realized that it was because they’d put a lot of thought into each scene, and it was necessary for the puppetry and silhouettes.  I was impressed by the shadow and silhouette work, manipulating light in a certain way takes a lot of effort.

 The show was weird, but weird in the best way possible. It combined mediums I haven’t seen before, and it was really thought provoking – which I didn’t expect from a puppet show.

The show will be playing again at the Cre8ery on Saturday at 7:30, and there will be a kid friendly performance at 2 p.m. on Sunday.