Happy Accident

Surreal, absurd, psychedelic and cathartic…the puppetry of Portland, Oregon’s Happy Accident is coming to Charlotte for the first time! Happy Accident’s work explores the exponential pace of overwhelming absurdity in our world. Found objects, large scale puppets and sputtering lights bring you face to face with the cuddly nightmare that is everyday life. An anti-clown car driven by puppeteer liz HOWLS and co-piloted by sound/lighting designer Drew Simpson, Happy Accident ecstatically careens down the wrong side of the lost highway leaving a trail of old copies of Weekly World News and Jack in the Box wrappers in its wake. Colorfully reimagining Saturday mornings spent drooling over piles of synthetic crap in front of the TV, Happy Accident revels in naked, antipathetic americana. You will probably laugh, you might cry, and like other designer drugs, you will want more within minutes. Ultimately you will ask yourself, “What kind of culture would produce something like this?” Come see the show that’s been getting rave reviews across the country and experience “a Cronenbergian joyride through the freakiness of modern life” (East Bay Express)