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Sept 17 (Wed) 2025: 7:30 pm
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About the Show
What happens when decadently weird artists get together? A handmade and high-concept puppet cabaret, obviously! Puppets at Night fans, brace yourselves for the playful, uncanny, and rawly experimental works of We Wiggle Dolls! A DIY Puppet Cabaret. With acts from New York City and New Orleans, We Wiggle Dolls are kicking off their fall tour with a one-night-only performance at Puppet Showplace Theater in Brookline!
Savor the bizarre, dream-like work of Opal, who studied robotics and marionette hybrids. Behold Jeremy Quentin’s diverse skills in hand puppetry, rod puppetry, marionettes, clowning, and more, which bring to life farce and tragedy. And sink your teeth into the absurd, satirical, and mythological work of duo Playdoh & Basil.
Local band The Velvet Dirtmunchers will provide musical interludes featuring their signature sultry vocals, haunting squeezebox, and heart-wrenching horn melodies. Band leader and puppeteer Camille Charlier will also perform a puppetry piece — you may have seen one of their delightfully weird and interactive pieces at a past Puppet Showplace puppet slam!
Don’t miss out on this supremely unique Puppets at Night performance, grab your ticket now!
Recommended for adults and ages 14+ with guardian
Length: 100 minutes, with intermission
Language: English
From New York City and New Orleans!
Creation of this show was supported by the Puppet Slam Network.
About the Artist
We Wiggle Dolls is a diasporic puppet show collective spun out of a popular Brooklyn Puppet Slam. Since October 2023, We Wiggle Dolls has produced 10 puppet slams, a 6-day festival, immersive experiences, long form productions, a light and shadow rock music spectacle, three national tours, and has published several puppet-themed zines! We Wiggle Dolls’ mission is to bring as wide a variety of puppetry as possible to audiences, to showcase new talent alongside seasoned veterans, and to make historical puppet culture more readily accessible as well.
Opal’s (she/they) work explores the bizarre, dreamlike, and uncanny; She creates experiences that challenge perception and immerse audiences in fantastical dreamscapes. Most often diving into the subject of love and mortality —- and their entwined relationship —, Opal places her audience in a trance state, offering transcendent and ineffable wisdoms.
Opal studied robotics and marionette hybrids under Alice Gottshalk at The O’Neill Theatre Center National Puppetry Conference in 2024, and her designs have been featured in Brooklyn's vibrant nightlife scene, contributing to events like Sweetheart Powder’s "Insects!" as well as Pretty Polly’s “Freak Show” at Sleepwalk.
Jeremy Quentin (he/they) is the founder and creative director of We Wiggle Dolls. His training includes Sandglass Theater’s puppetry intensive and two National Puppetry Conferences at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center. Jeremy has years of experience as an actor, and in recent years has performed in the Mudlark Players’ 2025 staging of “A Recluse and his Guest” as Ott, on all previous We Wiggle Dolls tours as a featured performer, the 2023 National Puppetry Festival, the past three installments of the New Orleans Giant Puppet Festival, and various slams around New York City. He also directed the multimedia rock musical spectacle “SOLAR-POWERED GENERATOR.”
A practitioner of hand puppetry, rod-style, marionette, shadow, clown, tabletop and abstract body puppetry; Jeremy’s work most often explores person’s obsessive pursuit of control, whether through farce or tragedy.
Playdoh (they/them) of Playdoh & Basil is a New Orleans based puppet artist exploring contested spaces and animated objects. Experienced in building and performing rod puppets, muppet style, bunraku style, toy theatre, shadow and marionette, Playdoh’s stories fuse ancient mythologies with contemporary dreams and dread, all through a silly, absurd and darkly humorous lens.
Playdoh has nationally toured 2 solo shows and performed at festivals, slams and theaters including The New Orleans Giant Puppet Fest, The National Puppetry Festival, Black Cherry Puppet Theatre, and Open Eye Theatre.
Basil (they/them) of Playdoh & Basil is an artistic hydra with many not so scary teeth. Their projects range from performing drag burlesque numbers, needle felting creatures, and staging comedy musicals. In 2025, Basil directed an ensemble of 16 masked performers in “DADS”, an absurdist musical, in the New Orleans Puppet Ball. They facilitate puppet workshops with the art collective Le Mysterium and recently performed with String and Shadow and premiered three newly devised short-form works in the New Orleans Giant Puppet Festival 2025.
Basil directs audiences to consider shadowy topics through a lens of satire and levity; Creating art that is as universal as a pop hit, unsettling as your diary entries, and as absurd as your REM cycles. They aim to expose avoided emotions and provoke thought around the philosophy of waste. Thanks to puppetry, all abstractions are possible.
Camille Charlier (they/them) is a Boston-based musician, composer, zine-maker, puppeteer, and theatrical-weirdo-clown. Camille leads the genre-bending (all-original!) Gothic Cabaret band The Velvet Dirtmunchers, and is a member of the Liars & Believers devised theatre ensemble.
The Velvet Dirtmunchers are a genre-bending sextet from Boston, MA featuring sultry vocals, squeezebox, and impudent (mouthy! hellacious!) horns.
