PhysFestNYC Presents: Please Ship This Wet Gift

Please Ship This Wet Gift

Please Ship This Wet Gift is one clown's presentation about terrible feelings, and provides an opportunity for family audiences to laugh together about feeling bad. Everyone can go home when she thinks you're prepared. This original work uses drawing, audience suggestions, made-up songs, puppetry, and cardboard sharks to explore dealing with the things in life that are unfair, scary, sad, and just really annoying.

For kids 4+ and adults who like really good shows and feelings

Marta Mozelle MacRostie is a puppeteer, clown, and maker based in NYC. She holds a degree in Puppetry & Music from UMass Amherst, studied clown around town, and was an invited participant in Sesame Street's 2016 & 2014 Training Workshops. Marta's previous show for family audiences Help Save the Monkey! premiered in the New York Children's Theater Festival, and was awarded a Jim Henson Foundation Family Grant. Please Ship This Wet Gift was selected for mentorship in the New Victory Theater's LabWorks program, and was realized through residencies at Celebration Barn Theater. Some performance highlights include Baby Universe (Wakka Wakka Productions, Studio Theater), and Lemony Snicket's The Composer is Dead (Phantom Limb Company, Berkeley Rep), and La Divina Caricatura (Mabou Mines, PS 122 and La MaMa).

Brave Bucket makes original puppet and/or clown theater for adult and family audiences. Our work has received support from the Jim Henson Foundation, the New England Foundation for the Arts, Celebration Barn Theater, and the New Victory Theater. We use a wide range of puppetry and physical performance styles to further storytelling, talk about feelings, and have a lot of fun.

This show will be followed by a free panel discussion on making physical theater for young and intergenerational audiences.

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PhysFestNYC is a community-focused festival that celebrates, enriches, and envisions our field of physical theaters. As an annual gathering, provides space for practitioners, audiences, and the physical-theater-curious to share in presented works, diverse workshop offerings, and community-building events.

Broken Box Mime Theater's mission is to activate the imagination of our audiences, contemporize the art of mime, and remind us all of the power of simple storytelling.