"You already know enough. So do I. It's not knowledge we lack. What is missing is the courage to understand what we know and to draw conclusions." Inspired by two pieces of luggage and the words of Swedish author Sven Lindquist, Beth Nixon (Ramshackle Enterprises) mumbled, paddled and bathed her way from "Right Here" to "Over There" in her new show, Is Enough Enough?Philly's fearless puppet artist Michele Posadas asked herself “How Did I Get Here?” on a road trip through the colonial Philippines, the battlefields of World War II, and the dating bar that brought her into this world, ending up with a big beard and a boat ride round the room. The Skekses (Sharon Wasko and Shannon Dunham) premiered Flock Together, the sequel to Birds of a Feather. Flock Together, following the adventures of a Turducken (a chicken stuffed inside of a duck stuffed inside of a turkey) and his betrothed Tofurkey (wheat gluten stuffed inside of tofu skin stuffed inside of a box) to holiday feast where unexpected guests (yep, the Osturducken, fresh off the plane from Botswana) begin to arrive. Means Of Productions (Daniel Lang/Levitsky from New York’s Chinese Theater Works and Jews Against the Occupation) evoked words from modern Lebanon and medieval Iberia in Muqaddimah, a one-man montage of shifting images from Brooklyn to Beirut that remake the senses, the cities, and the heart. And The Great Quentini made his annual year-end appearance with six emotional mtifs, exemplified by six wildly diverse cosumes that ranged from a teeny version of himself struggling with a popcorn popper, to reptile devouring the leaves of a hatrack.

No Year-End Cabaret is complete without a massive Chep Art Bazaar and we were graced by the resourceful detritus of Trash Worship, plus a double dance party from a the band that would later make it big as The West Philadelphia Orchestra.