Bristol Experimental Puppetry Festival ✷ brings you a very special and enchanting evening of ritualistic puppetry, worship of creation and imagination, sounds and shadows, cardbaord and foam, featuring puppet gore and puppet surgery ✷

With Presentations from The Enchanted Surgery from London, and Mondo Assurdo from Italy, with an interval in between more on their performances below.

The Enchanted Surgery ✷

The Enchanted Surgery is a continuously evolving, immersive, interactive and ritualistic performance, featuring colourful characters, songs, masks and puppets. For any audience however more suitable for adults due to scenes of puppet gore.

Will the good doctor surgeon be able to ward off Death and preserve the life of his suffering patient? What if letting the patient live could lead to greater suffering for the rest of the world? Why is the nurse so sexy? And what does the Toothfairy have to do with any of this?

These questions are to be answered by the the spectators of this spectacle, who will have a direct influence on its outcome, which in turn affects the next iteration of the show.

As of our last show a new ventriloquism puppet has taken centre stage, namely The President. We expect everyone to be at their best behaviour or we might all get fired.

Show duration: 20 minutes

MONDO ASSURDO ✷

GAMEBUILDUING SURVIVAL TECHNIQUES FOR THE EVERMOVING FUTURES & PASTS

. A SHOWCASE OF IMMAGINATIVE FORCES THROUGH SOUNDS IMAGES SHAPES DANCES PUPPETS SHADOWS AND LIGHTS OF REALITY. A NEVERENDING WORSHIP OF CREATION TO INFINITY AND BEYOND.

Mondo Assurdo acts as an explorative collective moving by all means of creation and imagination .

Our team is formed by the italian duo of Kuthi Jin & Voronhil and the belgian/chilean duo Quanta Qualia.

A multimedia spectacle that explores the interactions between dance, music, scenography and puppets. An array of big and tiny characters made out of foam and cardboard, from the cartoonish to the mythic, fantastic to stupid, funny to deep, transmute through different dimensions, passing from one media to another, revealing something of their/our spirit in an explosion of their potentials across matter.

The music is mixed and performed live by the team with potential participation of the audience.

DURATION: 40/45 minutes