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Snuff Puppets are a unique phenomenon: a company that directly challenges the limitations of puppetry and performance by producing work of extraordinary scope and epic proportions, indoors and outdoors. Giant puppets, spectacular visual images, black humour and incisive satire, Snuff Puppets tackle contemporary issues with an old fashioned and theatrical sensibility. Snuff Puppets are a giant puppet company committed to creating performance works for non?traditional sites and audiences. Their performance philosophy is gung ho, hit and run, in your face, rude, hilarious and challenging. They have a number of works in repertoire created to be performed in a variety of different venues for a variety of different audiences; fixed site shows for both indoors and outdoors, roaming puppets, workshops for community development/participation and large scale spectacles. They combine the elements of puppetry, live music, visual and physical theatre to create a unique and idiosyncratic performance language; engineering puppet/audience collisions that leave both parties breathless. All their work combines the trade market snuff puppet elements; a blackly dangerous humour, an incisive political satire, shameless hand-made visual aesthetic; populist, free, joyous conflagration of art, audience and artist.
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