The creators of The Muppets and Sesame Street are staging a puppet show that is strictly for adults only. Miss Piggy would blush over the antics in "Jim Henson's Puppet Improv" which spearheads a renaissance of puppet shows for grown-ups at this year's Edinburgh Fringe arts festival.Every afternoon at the Fringe, an anarchic troupe of puppeteers led by the late Jim Henson's son Brian do an improvisational show for kids. Every evening the air turns blue as the show takes off into surreal flights of fancy dictated by the audience.
"It is lovely to do a show where you can go wherever your brain takes you," said Henson, after that night's audience asked the puppeteers to play half a dozen hot dog puppets auditioning to be Ricky Martin's backup singers.
Henson, who has performed the improvisation show in Aspen and Hollywood, would like to develop it into a TV show. Two other projects he is working on are also just for adults. Henson applauded the success on stage in New York and London of "Avenue Q" and the hit movie "Team America:World Police" which satirizes President George W. Bush's "war on terror."
Yes, that's all the movie satirizes, Dumya Hitlerburton and his islamophobic genocide against the religion of peace and fluffy bunnies.
"Avenue Q was very, very clever. They are specifically parodying Sesame Street with an adult twist. Team America is a more unique choice as they decided to do it with marionettes."
Anyone else reminded of the puppeteering-related scenes in Being John Malkovich?