I will preface by saying that I am someone who gravitates towards avant-gard, experimental art and music. I also love puppetry as an art form and storytelling medium. So, I was not put off by the “weirdness” of this show. I also saw their show, “The Alberta Hospital for the Insane” last year and loved it so I was really looking forward to this.

That said, this didn’t work for me despite trying really hard to get into it. I admire their ambition but I was struggling to see what they were going for. I think the biggest issue for me was that the experimental electronic music soundtrack, which I loved in concept, seemed disconnected from the performance. It did not seem to follow what was happening at all and kind of felt like there were just two separate performances happening at once. I found it very distracting and it made it really hard for me to pay attention to what was being said. I would have hoped for some music that complemented the dialogue, changed tracks with scene changes, etc.

I did love the last two minutes and the music worked really well for that. I would have happily watched a whole hour of that.

I will continue to pay attention to what these young artists do and will see their show next year if they have one. I hope they continue to grow as artists because there is a lot of creativity there.