NASTY, BRUTISH & SHORT
A Puppet Cabaret
Brave new puppet art every quarter
Upcoming NBS performances
Friday, January 26 at 10:30pm
Saturday, January 27 at 10:30pm
Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts, Performance Penthouse, The University of Chicago, 915 E. 60th St.
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Rough House heads south to Hyde Park on the Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival’s final weekend for two more nights of its Nasty, Brutish & Short puppet cabaret. It’s an evening of raucous, raunchy, dark, sassy, sad and mostly hilarious puppet theater. The best part? Fancy out-of-towners puppeteers will join local legends in two final nights of puppet revelry.
Jan 26 Performers:
Karly Gesine Bergmann
Fidget Theatre: Jacklynn Kelsey and August Boyne
Justin D’Acci with Nadia Henderson
Sam Lewis and Sharon Udoh
Marianna Gallegos with Steffen Garcia
Jan 27 Performers:
The Bunny Royale: Jennifer Friedrich
Vanessa Valliere
Manual Cinema
Jabberwocky Marionettes: Lolly Extract and Amber Marsh
Yiwen Wu with Sherry Wang, Rudradutt Ranade, and Emair Zhu
About the Cabaret
Nasty Brutish & Short is an evening of contemporary short-form puppet and object based theater for adult audiences. The cabaret is a low risk environment for artists to perform new and experimental work and foster artistic exchange between puppet artists of different generations and mediums.
Co-Presented by Links Hall and Curated by McLeod and Myra Su. Produced by Mike Oleon
Contact us at cabaret@roughhousetheater.com
This event is funded in part by the Puppet Slam Network (a project of IBEX Puppetry)