When:
September 14, 2024 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
America/New York Timezone
2024-09-14T16:00:00-04:00
2024-09-14T17:00:00-04:00
Where:
Congress Square Park
Congress Square Park
Portland, ME 04101
USA
Congress Square Park
Portland, ME 04101
USA
Cost:
Free
Contact:
Mayo Street Arts + PiP PiP Parade
This is the one and only Punch and Judy, presented live, and updated for the 21st century.
Allow Mr. Punch to remove your bad mood, in this absurdist delight for four out of the five senses. Watch as Judy tames unruly plumbing while avoiding the jaws of the carnivore du jour! And, feast your eyes upon the diaper change that should not be! The script has been updated to remove the traditional murder and misogyny of a Punch and Judy show, but Mr. Punch still swings a verbal slapstick at the powers that be.
It’s a melodrama of epically small proportions, and it’s so funny that you’ll forget to take out your phone for at least the first half-hour. It’s a low-tech old-time spectacle, as entertaining to the masses of today as it was three hundred years ago.
The hand puppets are created from up-cycled designer trash and performed in an eccentric itinerant puppet stage. The show is hosted per tradition by a “bottler,” the uku-lady Rose Friedman. Justin Lander—showman of the absurd—portrays all the characters.
The program is rounded out with live music played on a variety of instruments, from the cornet to the bicycle pump.
MODERN TIMES THEATER is a featured artist of the 2024 Puppets in Portland (PiP) city-wide festival of international puppetry arts — September 13-22 in Portland, MAINE — Learn more & get tickets to PiP at PuppetsInPortland.org
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No one will be turned away from PiP events for lack of funds; please contact us at 207-879-4629 or pip@mayostreetarts.org for information on our pay-what-you-can admission policy. Our box office staff are also happy to help.
PiP has a no refund policy for all reservations. In the event that PiP is forced to cancel an event due to weather, illness, etc., refunds will be offered via the Ticket Tailor platform.