Snuff Puppets in Lisbon!

Welcome to the amazing world of Snuff Puppets!
The Australian company will participate in Festas de Lisboa 2022 (Lisbon Festivities), absolutely not to be missed!

^{HUMAN BODY PARTS}

^{⭆ 9 June}

^{11am - Rossio}

^{4pm - Praça de Luís de Camões}

^{7pm - Praça do Comércio}

^{⭆ 10 June}

^{11am - Jardim da Estrela}

^{4pm - Jardim Afonso de Albuquerque}

^{7pm - Jardim S. Pedro de Alcântara}

^{⭆ 11 June}

^{11am - Parque das Nações (next to the statue Homem-Sol)}

^{4pm - Quinta das Conchas}

^{7pm - Alameda D. Afonso Henriques}

Lisbon is going to be invaded by human organs! A unique show, brought to you by the Australian company Snuff Puppets (1992), a community of artists and performers from Melbourne, Australia, dedicated to creating giant puppets and performing puppet theatre. Their creations are a combination of visual arts, puppet theatre, sculpture, design, engineering, sound, movement, performance and drama.

_{For reasons beyond the control of EGEAC and A Tarumba, some parts of the human body were retained on the ship that was bringing them to us.}
^{They will be replaced by other scenographic elements that, for now, we do not disclose: we don't want to spoil the surprise ;)}

_{Artistic direction: Andy Freer Performers: Nick Wilson, Rebecca Rutter, Rochelle Bright, Daniel Flood, Aidan Min, Daniele Poidomani, Lauren Bok}

^{Coproduction: EGEAC / A Tarumba}

BIO

Since 1992, Snuff Puppets has been unleashing its giant puppet spectacles on millions of people worldwide. 

Their work is a collision of visual art, sculpture, design, engineering, music, movement, performance and physical theatre. At the heart of it is their giant puppets – sometimes gorgeous; sometimes grotesque – and the unpredictable ways they are brought to life.

They are specialised in non-traditional arts audiences, and in creatively reclaiming streets and public spaces. Snuff Puppets are deliberately anarchic, rebellious and dangerous.

Their work tackles difficult, awkward and taboo topics that invite our audiences to challenge themselves, simultaneously causing discomfort and delight.

They are renowned for the dramatic use of scale, from the world’s largest puppet, Everybody, to the towering, crane-operated Congolese superheroine Punch Agathe.
They practice radical inclusivity and an open-door policy, an antidote to the elitism of the art world. Their work celebrates difference while seeking out the things we have in common.

They performed at countless international festivals including the London Night Parade, Sziget in Hungary, and Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale Japan, among others. In Lisbon they presented 'The Boom Family' and 'The Cows' at FIMFA Lx3. They have taken their work to dozens of countries across five continents, from the streets of Kinshasa in the DRC to the small islands of Japan’s Seto Inland Sea, and from the Sao Paulo CBD to the forecourt of the Reichstag in Berlin.

Their ambitious People’s Puppet Project workshop model has been presented in China, India, Korea, Taiwan, Indonesia, Japan, Brazil, Denmark and Netherlands, and they’ve headed up large scale events and diplomatic missions supported by DFAT, whilst always retaining their ethos of radical provocation and irreverent humour.

With 30 years of performance history, and clocking over 100 million YouTube views in one year, Snuff Puppets are a much-loved company with a devoted global following, representing a distinctive and recognisable Australian voice.