Six farcical meditations on mortality, created and performed as live puppet animations by Conrad Bishop & Elizabeth Fuller. Our repertoire of characters range from hand puppets and jointed dolls and masks to near-lifesize creatures.

A weed-maddened gardener attacks an intruder that just won’t stop growing, but has to cope with the fact that it loves him anyway. An unwitting housewife opens the door to two clown Messengers of Doom. And a man with five minutes to live races the clock to finish his “Five Stages of Dying” before the gong sounds. In “The Death of Howdy Doody,” an elderly lawyer confesses to carrying out the court-authorized murder of a marionette— a true story, in fact. Two elders, seeing their younger selves about to end their love affair, offer earnest but unheeded advice. And in “At the Prom with Kali,” a high school kid at the Senior Prom takes a roller-coaster ride through life with the goddess of Life and Time.