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But don't take our word for it…

“visually stunning and endlessly entertaining.”

The L.A. Times

 

“one of the best shows of the year… not to be missed.”

The Globe & Mail

 

“brilliant, sublime and often hilarious… sheer visual poetry… engages an audience like few productions I’ve ever seen….”

Monday Magazine, Victoria

 

“…original…hilarious…breathtaking inventiveness…”

The Georgia Straight

 

“one of the wildest, wackiest, most inventive puppet shows you’re ever likely to see.”

The Toronto Star

“Mind-blowing originality… [The Trouts] are boldly reshaping puppet theatre into sophisticated adult entertainment.”

Fast-Forward Magazine, Calgary

 

“…un plato delicioso… la esplendida altura de Puppet canadiense.”

“…a delicious meal… the splendid heights of the Canadian puppet.”

Granada Hoy, Spain

 

“An amazing theatre experience… one of the best, most surreal works of imagination I’ve seen in ages.”

See Magazine, Edmonton

 

“Exquisite… boundless invention… virtuosity…”

Variety Magazine

 

“hilarious, beautiful and macabre… simply remarkable… too intense to allow its audience

to catch its breath, too beautiful for them

to want to.”

Fast-Forward Magazine, Calgary

“dramatically engaging and visually stunning.”

The Boston Globe

 

“no end of highlights… a great black comedy.”

The Calgary Herald

 

“…you simply have to catch this show… truly inspired.”

The Regina Leader-Post

 

“Nothing short of genius.”

The Ottawa Citizen

 

“Pure joy.  Great, great theatre.”

Alvina Ruprecht, CBC Radio

 

“Un bijou de créativité, de tendresse, at d’humour… un spectacle sans limite.”

“A jewel of creativity, of tenderness, and humour… a show without limits.”

Le Progrès, France

 

“Sublimely inventive theatre… eye-popping images… wondrously imagined.”

The Courier, Vancouver

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The Old Trout Puppet Workshop operates on the territory of the Niitsitapi (Blackfoot) and the people of the Treaty 7 region including the Siksika, Piikuni, Kainai, Tsuut’ina and Stoney Nakoda First Nations of Chiniki, Bearpaw, and Wesley. It is also home to Métis Nation of Alberta, Region III.

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