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Bunk Puppets from Australia will present "Swamp Juice" for Hong Kong audiences in July. Blending shadow puppetry with physical theatre, the show creates a playful adventure set in a very unusual swamp and offers a captivating encounter for all ages.
"Swamp Juice" was a winner of the Total Theatre Award in the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2011.
In the programme, Jeff Achtem from Bunk Puppets will show how creativity and imagination can turn bits of rubbish into shadow puppets like bickering snails, a neurotic snake, an opera-singing mouse and more. He will also manipulate multiple junk-made puppets in front of the audiences, who will be astounded as the shadows leap off the screen in the 3D finale. Audience members may even become puppeteers in this uproarious show, which features original music played live by Manny Fox.
"Swamp Juice" by Bunk Puppets from Australia, one of the programmes of the summer festival International Arts Carnival (IAC), will be staged from July 16 to 19. Details are as follows:
Dates and time: July 16 and 17, 7.30pm
Venue: Sai Wan Ho Civic Centre Theatre
Prices: $140, $180, $240
Dates and times: July 18, 7.30pm
July 19, 2.30pm and 5pm
Venue: North District Town Hall Auditorium
Prices: $120, $160
Tickets are available at URBTIX. Half-price tickets are available for full-time students, senior citizens aged 60 or above, people with disabilities and their minders, and Comprehensive Social Security Assistance recipients. Booking discounts of up to 20 per cent are available for IAC full-price performing arts/film programmes.
The IAC, organised by the Leisure and Cultural Services Department, will run from July 10 to August 16 and feature a variety of events for family entertainment. Programme brochures are available at URBTIX outlets or at the carnival website www.hkiac.gov.hk. For programme enquiries, please call 2370 1044.
Internet bookings can be made at www.urbtix.hk. Telephone credit card bookings can be made on 2111 5999.
Ends/Tuesday, June 30, 2015
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