Happy Accident is back in Memphis for another electrifyingly eccentric puppet show! Belching forth from the glorified backwater village of Portland, OR, Happy Accident’s work explores the exponential pace of overwhelming absurdity in our world. Found objects, large scale puppets and sputtering lights bring you face to face with the cuddly nightmare that is everyday life. An anti-clown car driven by puppeteer liz HOWLS and co-piloted by musician/lighting enthusiast Drew Simpson, Happy Accident ecstatically careens down the wrong side of the lost highway leaving a trail of old copies of Weekly World News and Jack in the Box wrappers in its wake. Colorfully reimagining Saturday mornings spent drooling over piles of synthetic crap in front of the TV, Happy Accident revels in naked, antipathetic americana. You will probably laugh, you might cry, and like other designer drugs, you will want more within minutes. Ultimately you will ask yourself, “What kind of culture would produce something like this?”
Guest performing at the puppet show is Moxie Macabre! With sultry, fluid flair and androgynous glamour, the "Morbid Muse of Memphis", Moxie Macabre is a non-binary burlesque artist and clown in their third year of performing. Transmuting the macabre through movement, they draw much inspiration from darkness - tracing their heels along silver linings on the fringes of it - teasing you with their spiteful revelry.
This is an 18+ event.
Tickets are on a sliding scale. Get yours here!