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Saturday, January 21, 2023

FREE Streaming and Cheap In Person Adult Puppet Fun With Nasty, Brutish and Short: A Puppet Cabaret.

ChiIL Live Shows On Our Radar 

Chicago Puppet Fest, Rough House, and Links Hall present:

Nasty, Brutish & Short

January 20-21 & 27-28, 2023 at 10:30pm

Suggested for Ages: 16 and up


 

REVIEW:

By Bonnie Kenaz-Mara

Chicago's being taken over by a puppet invasion for the now annual Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival. Don't miss this! We caught Friday night's Nasty, Brutish & Short (named for Thomas Hobbes infamous 1651 quote on life without art and society) and were well entertained by this adult puppet cabaret.

Acts ranged from shadow puppets to life-sized 3D creations, potty mouthed muppet types on MC duty, a giant plush vagina with a chatty clit, a female puppet doctor taking actual medical questions from the audience, and more. Our favorite piece was Mother Water, a gorgeous and moving shadow puppet film. Check out all the nights of on Nasty, Brutish & Short: A Puppet Cabaret on YouTube, now available for free streaming any time HERE.

BRITTANY CLEMONS & MAISIE O'BRIEN: "Mother Water" is a shadow puppetry short film pilot exploring racism, African-American and African folklore and Reconstruction through a supernatural lens.


Puppet cabaret line-up this Friday (Jan 20) at 10:30pm! Links Hall Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival


LINDSEY BALL: This shortened version of "Kopfkino" features a suitcase crankie story of the real history and science of crickets, infusing them with a heroic sweetness and a bit of magic.

(photo by Evan Barr)

MYRA KALAW: "The Soup & the Crumbs" is a shadow puppetry piece about two mismatched creatures caught in an act of communion.

MADIGAN BURKE: Magican is a filmmaker, artist, and engineer whose work aims to explore queerness, encourage curiosity, and spread joy.

Also check out Les Anges, Rocio "Chio" Cabrera, Dana Kogan and more!

If you're short on time and/or money, Chicago’s favorite late-night puppet cabaret, Nasty, Brutish & Short at Links is a great place to start. This special festival edition, featuring the charming and furry host, Jameson, is home to raucous, raunchy, dark, sassy, sad, and mostly hilarious puppet theater, highlighting more experimental work by out of towners as well as local favorites in four different nights of puppet revelry. Every night features a different lineup and all are available live as a ticketed event or streaming free. Catch the live stream show nights at 10:30 on YouTube or watch later at your leisure.


Location: Links Hall, 3111 N. Western Ave.

Cost: $18/$15 students & seniors

Running Time: 85 mins

ADA Accessible

Extend your festival experience by hitting Chicago’s favorite late-night puppet cabaret, Nasty, Brutish & Short. This special festival edition, featuring the charming and furry host, Jameson, is home to raucous, raunchy, dark, sassy, sad and mostly hilarious puppet theater, highlighting more experimental work by out of towners as well as local favorites in four different nights of puppet revelry.

Here at ChiIL Live Shows, we've been catching Nasty, Brutish & Short year round for nearly a decade. Some of the off season shows are uneven, with some brilliant pieces and some that... need work. Still, that's the point. Like everything, puppetry takes practice, and we love that Nasty, Brutish & Short is a place where beginners as well as seasoned professionals come to play together in a safe place to workshop new material or puppet for the first time. During the Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival most of the pieces are phenomenal and it's a great place to catch excerpts from multiple International show that are playing around town. Highly recommended.

Bonnie is a Chicago based writer, theatre critic, photographer, videographer, actress, artist and Mama. She owns two websites where she publishes frequently: ChiILLiveShows.com (adult) & ChiILMama.com (family friendly).


Nasty, Brutish & Short

January 20-21 & 27-28, 2023 at 10:30pm

January 20th at 10:30pm

January 21st at 10:30pm

January 27th at 10:30pm

January 28th at 10:30pm

(and streaming any time HERE)


About the Co-Presenters

Rough House connects individuals and communities through art that celebrates the weird things that make us unique, and the weirder things that bring us together. We create puppet art that captures the heart through the eye. Our work use puppetry, music, and human performance to tell stories that are intimate, strange, and sincere. Based in Chicago, Rough House has been presented at the Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival, The National Puppetry Festival, Physical Festival Chicago, and Open Eye Figure Theater’s Toy Theater After Dark. Rough House has toured across the United States, performing in auditoriums, lotion factories, funeral homes, basements, bars, galleries, punk houses and even the woods of Appalachia. Through Collaboration, Education, Art-making, Curating and Performance, Rough House seeks to make a bizarre and loving home for puppet makers and audiences alike. roughhousetheater.com


Links Hall encourages artistic innovation and public engagement by maintaining a facility and providing flexible programming for the research, development and presentation of new work in the performing arts. Through its residency programs, artist-curated festivals, co-presentations with self-producing artists, cabarets, performance series, workshops, and low-cost studio rentals, Links provides a home for artists across all performance disciplines, at all stages of their careers. Founded in 1978 by choreographers Bob Eisen, Carol Bobrow, and Charlie Vernon, Links Hall became a National Performance Network partner in 1998 and received a MacArthur Award for Creative and Effective Institutions in 2016. In April 2013, Links and musician/presenter Mike Reed created a collaborative arts venue as the shared home of Constellation Arts and Links Hall. See Chicago Dance named Links Hall as the “Fearlessly Inspired” organization of 2020 noting the adaptive spirit and unfailing desire to support artists of all kinds. www.linkshall.org




Tuesday, September 25, 2012

TONIGHT Final Show--Bat Honey-Ironwill Tate Adult Puppet Show #photos



We thoroughly enjoyed checking out the adult puppet show, Ironwill Tate, on Sunday night.  Bat Honey is from Missoula, Montana and they're just swingin' through Chi-town for 3 shows only, on their cross country tour.  Come on out and see 'em tonight.   We'll have HD show clips coming soon.


“Ironwill Tate” is a fantasy-filled puppet extravaganza for adults. The show features over 40 handmade puppets utilizing ancient and modern puppetry styles. In “Ironwill Tate” we follow a family on the last leg of their cross-country road-trip. At the wheel is Tate, the father and fanatical schedule keeper who decides what they will and will not stop for. Drunken zoo animals, dying wizards, and giant robots vie for the family’s attention, but Tate will stop at nothing to keep that pedal down. This main narrative is the springboard for a series of vignettes woven throughout. It gets strange, folks.
Bat Honey is comprised of Britt Juchem and Ariel Gregory. Britt and Ariel began their career as stop motion animators. Veteran Los Angeles model makers for film and television, they have been collaborating for over ten years.

*Show contains language and adult intellectual themes and content


Catch their final Chi-Town show TONIGHT on the north side at Portage ARTspace!



Event:
Ironwill Tate Plays Portage ARTspace
Start:
Sept 25, 2012 7:00 pm
End:
Sept 25, 2012 8:00 pm
Updated:
Sept 17, 2012
Venue:
portage ARTspace
Address:
4837 W. Berenice Ave. ,Chicago, IL,60641 ,United States
Please come to portage ARTspace to see our road-trip odyssey Ironwill Tate.  The show starts at 7pm at portage ARTspace, 4837 W. Berenice Ave.  Chicago, IL 60641


This past weekend, Bat Honey performed at Southside Hub of Production, a cool, Hyde Park art gallery Saturday and Sunday night, where an eclectic audience brought pot luck food and wine to share.  Their 1910 space is full of gorgeous wood work and wabi sabi, salvaged furniture.  Check out their upcoming events here.  They're planning openings and events for artists' month in October, so check out their main site and calendar of events.


Check out our past Ironwill Tate coverage here.

Saturday, September 22, 2012

CHI, IL LIVE SHOWS ON OUR RADAR: Bat Honey Adult Puppet Shows Sat, Sun & Tues ONLY




Ironwill Tate at Southside Hub Chicago tonight (Sat) and Sunday
Tuesday at Portage ARTspace!


**Our friend Sandman, The Rapping Cowboy, gave us the 411 on this awesome adult puppet show on tour right now.   His friends Britt and Ariel are storming Chi-town tonight (Sat 9/22) & Sunday on the south side and Tuesday on the north.   Check em out before they split outta town!!   Tixs only $10   **


Ironwill Tate Puppet Show

Ironwill Tate is a fantasy-filled, comic adventure  for adults.  The show features over 30 handmade puppets in a variety of styles. The story follows Tate and his family on the last leg of their cross-country road trip.  Dying magicians, drunken zoo animals and giant robots compete for their attention but Tate will stop for nothing in his zealous quest to be reunited with the one thing he loves above all others.  Woven throughout are unusual vignettes which take the viewer  through strange realities.

Check out their main site here for more info.




Captain Beech and Camilla Von Momma




Bat Honey
 is the artist duo of Britt Juchem and Ariel Gregory.  Britt and Ariel have collaborated on stop-motion animations, murals, children’s books, board games and puppet shows.

Britt Juchem was raised in Pennsylvania.  Loving the excitement and close proximity of the East Coast, Britt would draw inspiration from the unique sights and sounds of the city and the crowds.

Ariel Gregory was raised in New Mexico .  A lad armed with a spear and the wide open desert,  Ariel’s work reflects a boy’s wild imagination.



The Wizard

Ironwill Tate Puppet Show


The Family




Ironwill Tate at Southside Hub Chicago!


Event:
Ironwill Tate at Southside Hub Chicago!
Start:
September 23, 2012 7:00 pm
End:
September 23, 2012 8:00 pm
Cost:
$10
Organizer:
Updated:
August 26, 2012
Venue:
Southside Hub
Address:
5638 Woodlawn Ave,Chicago, IL,60637,United States
Join us as the traveling show, Ironwill Tate plays a second performance in the great city of Chicago!
Southside Hub is located at 5638 Woodlawn Ave Chicago, IL  60637
Tickets  are $10
Recommended for adults, contains mature language


Ironwill Tate Plays Portage ARTspace



Two friends share the travails of life as pigeons




Event:
Ironwill Tate Plays Portage ARTspace
Start:
September 25, 2012 7:00 pm
End:
September 25, 2012 8:00 pm
Updated:
September 17, 2012
Venue:
portage ARTspace
Address:
4837 W. Berenice Ave. ,Chicago, IL,60641 ,United States
Please come to portage ARTspace to see our road-trip odyssey Ironwill Tate.  The show starts at 7pm at portage ARTspace, 4837 W. Berenice Ave.
Chicago, IL 60641


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