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Please Ship This Wet Gift
Please Ship This Wet Gift
Saturday, March 23 at 1:00pm
Sunday, March 24 at 1:00pm
Tickets: $5-$25 sliding scale*
Please Ship This Wet Gift is one clown's interactive presentation about terrible feelings, and provides an opportunity for family audiences to laugh together about feeling bad. Everyone can go home when she thinks you're prepared! (Because it's better if you're prepared.) (And she'll be the guy who prepared you.)
This original work uses audience suggestion & participation, drawing, made-up songs, puppetry, and cardboard sharks to explore dealing with the things in life that are unfair, scary, sad, and just really annoying. The show melds smarty-pants clown theater with expert puppetry to bring compassion and lightness to the heavy stuff.
Run Time: approx 65-75 minutes
Recommended for ages 4+, & adults who like really good shows and feelings; younger siblings welcome
*Tickets purchased on the upper end of the sliding scale help support our ongoing commitment to accessibility and sliding scale models
Marta Mozelle MacRostie (Performer/Designer) is a puppeteer, clown and builder based in NYC. Her previous show for family audiences Help Save the Monkey! (with collaborator Liz Hara) premiered in the 2014 New York Children's Theater Festival, and was awarded a 2014 Jim Henson Foundation Family Grant. Marta has worked with Phantom Limb Co, Mabu Mines, and Wakka Wakka Productions, and has some fancy credits that include Sesame Street, and performances at the Kennedy Center, the New Victory Theater, and some really nice libraries.
Hannah Simms (Director) is a director and teacher based in Hartford, CT, where she is an ensemble member at HartBeat Ensemble. She is a graduate of the Dell'Arte School of Physical Theatre, the NTI Advanced Directing Semester at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, and the Ada Comstock Program at Smith College.
Marta & Hannah met on their afterschool softball team in Amherst, MA. Their team never won a game, but they did do the bunny hop in the outfield.
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