An experienced puppeteer makes a live film with only ordinary objects, a camera, her face, her mouth and her hands. A surprising cabaret that takes the audience on a journey full of humour, with a cheeky grandmother who doesn’t want to leave the limelight.
André-Anne LeBlanc creates daring numbers and projects them onto a huge screen, with costumes created by Jimbo, winner of RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars.
Get ready for goosebumps, roaring laughter, boundless imagination, illusions and even a few philosophical questions, which create a truly surreal twist in our brains.
Epidermis Circus has been performed with great success in Canada. He was invited by David Byrne and was part of his variety show in New York, but has also been at The Lincoln Centre NYC, in Mexico and France.
“Totally magical, madly inventive, wickedly funny (…) and erotic, occasionally!
5 STARS. Imagine Shari Lewis possessed by David Lynch.”
– Winnipeg Free Press ★★★★★
“An hour-long vaudeville show, extremely entertaining and crazy. It’s full of vibrant, mischievous and mystifying numbers (…). The moving hands (…) have the kind of presence that is often attributed to the greatest stage performers – sweeping the audience off their feet and creating a silence interspersed with spontaneous bursts of laughter.”
– Culture Catch NYC
“Going beyond the world of the strange, the humour of Epidermis Circus lives in the universe of absolute absurdity. Critics’ choice ★★★★★”
-Jaycie Buben, All About Solo NYC
“A theatre of objects with limitless inventiveness. (…) This dazzling Canadian show stands out for its dizzying inventiveness.”
– Léna Martinelli, Les Trois Coups
“He turns anything and everything into a puppet and makes it hilarious. A MUST-SEE!”
– FringeReviews.com
BIO
SNAFU – Society of Unexpected Spectacles is an award-winning Canadian company, based in Victoria and founded in 2006, that likes to create unexpected, unusual, wild and free shows. They celebrate all bodies and cultivate the spectator’s pleasure. They also present creations in unusual spaces, such as bike paths, public toilets, art galleries, historic sites, car parks, schools and prisons. Their work has been compared to Wes Anderson or David Lynch, described as ‘hilarious, absurd and deeply human’ (The Star Phoenix Newspaper).
Behind Epidermis Circus is Ingrid Hansen, one of the founders of SNAFU, together with Britt Small, who has over 20 years’ experience as a director, producer, performer, curator, storyteller and teacher. Ingrid is a television puppeteer for the Jim Henson Company and part of the Sesame Street and Fraggle Rock team. Over the past decade, she has developed an ongoing collaboration with the inmates of William Head on Stage, the only prison theatre company in Canada that performs for the public.
André-Anne LeBlanc is a puppeteer, variety artist and circus producer. With over 20 years of setting the stage on fire internationally with the legendary Cabaret Décadanse, she has presented puppets for adults from London’s West End to Broadway. She is the co-creator and producer of MAJESTIQUE, a circus-cabaret that has successfully toured Europe and North America. She is currently the star of Warner Bros’ Scooby-Doo and the Lost City of Gold, where she mixes acting, singing and dancing with her true love: puppets.
