Shows for Adult Audiences

Puppetmongers’ repertoire of shows recommended for audiences aged 14+.

In-Person Shows Available

Brick Bros. Circus

This inventive play delights audiences of all ages, bringing the world of play, creativity and performance to life, brick by brick by brick. Guaranteed to stimulate imaginations and spark creative thinking, the Brick Bros. Circus is a complete, miniature one-ring circus, performed by highly trained building bricks in itty bitty costumes. See the acrobatic Bildovitch Family, the breathtaking Madame Brikaskova, the amazing Brick Contortionist and much much more!

Walidad the Grass Cutter

Performed with delicately carved rod marionettes, delightful visual effects and traditional Persian music, this retelling of a Near-Eastern folk tale is puppet theatre for older audiences. The Puppetmongers introduce a stunningly beautiful world of imaginative experience, based on their own travels in Iran, in this moving tale of a poor grass cutter whose generosity inadvertently draws him and his friend, a travelling merchant, into a world of p

The Ballad of Tamlin

(Retired from repertoire.) A story about coming of age in the time of Faeries. Tamlin is an ancient story from Scotland, kept alive in the sung oral tradition and written

Terror

A site-specific staging of The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe, in which Roderick Usher entombs his still living sister, Madeline, in the vault of their decaying mansion. To offset, and interweave with this piece, we chose a scenario suggested by David Ives in his short story, Bolero, which tells the story of a contemporary couple listening to noises in their building, where it also sounds as though a woman is being harmed.

Monger Memories

This short work takes siblings Ann and David back to some of their earliest memories, during their dad’s British army posting to Hong Kong in the mid-1950’s. Using old family

Hard Times

We take one of the classics of Dickensian literature and flip everything on its head, including the audience. Hard Times shows us a world in which supply and demand govern every human interaction, a world where a lot has changed since the Victorian era of greed, power, marginalization and class conflict – or has it?

Pirate Widow Cheng

This production, set in early 19th century China, explores the true story of Shih Yang and her rise from prostitution to her command of one of China’s most ruthless pirate combines. We know that she married a gang leader named Cheng I, but how were they able to forge a confederation of pirate fleets that numbered 80,000 strong? When her husband died, how was it that the Widow Cheng was elected the Paramount Admiral of the combined pirate fleet? Was it her charisma that enabled her to transform the pirate’s violent activities to the more lucrative and stable business of protection and extortion?