The Curtain Call: The Cosmic Caravan
Found Objects perform outside of the Sunset Room.
The Cosmic Caravan
Sunset Room, March 5
When I think of puppets, I think of government-sponsored child-therapy sessions; others may think of famous TV shows for kids, such as Sesame Street or the Muppet Show.
Having this as my pretext, I didn’t know what to expect when I heard that the Found Objects, an all-female music and puppetry group based in Victoria, would be putting on a show with their Shakohatchi Creatures at the Sunset Room, but I was certainly intrigued.
I could never have imagined that I would be treated to some of the freshest ideas to come out of the puppetry world in a long time.
The troupe, comprised of Tangle Caron, Cassandra Buunk, and Nelly Scott, uses found objects that have been ingeniously fashioned into puppets to facilitate creative and experimental, yet still family oriented, interactive performances that seem to be more a show of the pure creative force then that of addles of classical live animation.
Underlying the show are common themes of comedy woven into how bloody weird it can be to interact with a puppet which seems to answer the age-old internal question, “If my used juice container suddenly burst to life, what would it say or do?”
The Found Objects and their handmade, found-object puppets, suggest the answer is quite amusing.
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Ya, I saw thes guys thay triped me out completly. like so F-U-N!