Puppet Crimes

Jana Zeller of Sandglass Theater | USA

This dark comedy highlights all the glory of traditional, antiauthoritarian, counter-cultural puppet theater. Puppet Crimes is a raucously hilarious satire about what it takes for a common puppet to survive for 400 years in the face of war, tyranny and economic oppression. Traditional German hand puppet heroes Kasper and Gretel struggle to survive on the margins of society. As the centuries pass through their little puppet booth, Kasper tries to avoid getting blamed, arrested and drafted — yet at every turn this petty puppet is made the scapegoat for larger crimes. Each scene poses a grotesque circumstance with a comic twist that explores the tradition of Kasper’s character and its timeless relevance to today’s world.