Old Trout Brings Puppet Death Scenes to Town

Famous Puppet Death Scenes
October 18 and 19, 7:30 pm
October 20, 2:00 pm and 8:00 pm
$25 / Student rush tickets are $10 and can be picked up 2 hours before the show
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Bostonist hears about a lot of unusual events, but "Famous Puppet Death Scenes" from the Old Trout Puppet Workshop may win the prize for the oddest. A puppet is an inanimate object--a dead object, if you will--until someone sticks a hand up it, right? But the performance is exactly what it says it is. These Canadian puppeteers have compiled famed puppet death scenes, all designed to help you confront your fear of death head-on.

Here's exactly what the Old Trouts claim to do: "Deconstruct your traumatized psyche and reconstruct you so that death means nothing to you anymore. In a way, we promise ever-lasting life." What would Freud think?

We're not convinced that the Old Trout Puppet Workshop can help you in an existential crisis, but their puppets display a staggeringly ugly beauty. Speaking of the ugly beauty, the ICA stresses that the show is for adults, but if you have a particularly mature tot in your life, adults can bring children over 7.

Image courtesy of the ICA.