{"id":2639,"date":"2015-07-12T07:42:31","date_gmt":"2015-07-12T10:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/?p=2639"},"modified":"2023-07-07T17:05:23","modified_gmt":"2023-07-07T20:05:23","slug":"my-big-fat-german-puppet-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/?p=2639","title":{"rendered":"My Big Fat German Puppet Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/my_big_fat_german_puppet_show-web-250x375.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2640\" src=\"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/my_big_fat_german_puppet_show-web-250x375-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"my_big_fat_german_puppet_show-web-250x375\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/my_big_fat_german_puppet_show-web-250x375-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/my_big_fat_german_puppet_show-web-250x375.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>Frank Meschkuleit\u2019s <em>My Big Fat German Puppet Show<\/em>, which plays through July 12th, 2015 as part of the <a href=\"http:\/\/fringetoronto.com\">Toronto Fringe Festival <\/a>is a hilarious and strange performance which includes puppetry and songs and stand up, but it\u2019s the ways in which Meschkuleit uses his puppets that makes him so unique and magical to watch. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"s1\">Our host for the evening is a large, portly German fellow by the name of Franz Poopenspiel, and the puppet shows emerge as little vignettes out of his comedic interactions with the audience. The first is a parody of Bob Marley\u2019s \u201cJammin\u2019\u201d (\u201cI\u2019m German\u201d), then there is a very funny sketch about a zombie magician, who also begins a sing a long, a pun-filled sketch imagining Stephen Hawking\u2019s as a physics standup comedian, and a joyful muppet number. Meschukuleit is continually unexpected, has a lovely singing voice, has beautifully command of his puppets and entirely entertaining to watch. I recommend checking this show out, you\u2019ve likely never seen anything like it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>TWISI FRINGE RATING: \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/5_Star_Rating_System_4_and_a_half_stars6.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2587\" src=\"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/5_Star_Rating_System_4_and_a_half_stars6.png\" alt=\"5_Star_Rating_System_4_and_a_half_stars\" width=\"140\" height=\"25\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><em>My Big Fat German Puppet Show<\/em> plays at the St. Vladimir Institute (620 Spadina Avenue) as part of the Toronto Fringe Festival at the following times:<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3><strong>show times<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>July 12 at 01:00 PM \u00a0<a class=\"button small\" href=\"https:\/\/tff.tickets.red61.com\/listprices.php?performanceId=1066:1784\">buy tickets<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frank Meschkuleit\u2019s My Big Fat German Puppet Show, which plays<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4671],"tags":[4729,4730,3747,4245],"class_list":["post-2639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-review","tag-frank-meschkuleit","tag-st-vladimir-institute","tag-toronto","tag-toronto-fringe"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>My Big Fat German Puppet Show - The Way I See It Theatre &amp; 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