Mackay Festival of Arts

10 - 25 July > Supported by Festivals Australia
The internationally renowned and much-loved Snuff Pupp ets, a giant puppet company, will be our artists in residence during the festival. Marvel at their wonderful rogue cartoon creations as they rove the Festival Opening Night, Songs For Sarina and the G & S Engineering Wine & Food Day. This group has worked with local communities in Australia, Korea and Japan to create wonderful puppet shows. Their performance will combine elements of puppetry, visual and physical theatre as well as live music to create an idiosyncratic show that will leave the audience breathless with astonishment and laughter.

School students and community members will also have the opportunity to attend workshops to design and construct their own puppets (contact Jemma on 4961 9765 for more details). Building on their tradition of presenting unorthodox theatre, Snuff Pupp ets will perform their adults only Cabaret Snuff Clubb on Thursday 15 July. At Snuff Clubb, the unconscious, dreams, nightmares, reality and the surreal freely intermix and the line between audience and performer is destroyed. Once in the Clubb it will feel like everything and anything can happen.

This project is subject to funding.