Snuffhouse Dustlouse
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Sep 6, 2000
Closed Sep 16, 2000
Opened Sep 6, 2000
Closed Sep 16, 2000
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
Faulty Optic returns with the US Premiere of its wonderfully warped signature production of Snuffhouse Dustlouse. It is a strange tale of a half-human, half-sack figure in a world run on cockroach power, whose obsessive daily rituals are threatened by an outsider. Part of the Henson International Festival of Puppet Theater.
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Snuffhouse Dustlouse was first performed in 1990 by Gavin Glover and Liz Walker, the brains and hands behind Faulty Optic puppet theater. Since then, the show has toured worldwide, becoming a signature piece in the repertoire of this "surreal" and "non-verbal" company which aims to "create worlds unique to the characters that inhabit them."
It's no surprise that so many critics--and the company itself--describe the work as "Beckettian." There are familiar themes here: memory fetish, the gradual winding down of a finite world, daily routine as its own ritual. But while Becket was, in a sense, a puppeteer forced to work with human actors, Faulty Optic beautifully explodes human isolat[...]