Poster by Courtney Blazon and Morgan F.P. Andrews.
Curated and hosted by Morgan F.P. Andrews.

Robert O'Brien, Madeline ffitch and Donna Selinger
in The Most Mysterious Day of the Year

After invading Philly with their back-to-back productions The Woders of the World: Recite and The Tempest, the Missoula Oblongata returned for the third time in 2007 with their second original full-length play. Local foam puppet favorites the Skekses opened with the premiere of their fourth comedic work.

The Skekses took the stage with UNDERWORLD, a 15-minute show about a mafia henchman who finds himself at the bottom of the Schuylkill River with a pack of verbose aquaculture, including his invertibrate nemsis the Lobster Mobster and an argyle mollusk named Socktopus. Then the audience rearranged their chairs to face the opposite corner for the Missoula Oblongata in THE MOST MYSTERIOUS DAY OF THE YEAR, starring a bedriding sleauth and his lovesick bird, a scrooge-like rival detective and his raccoony niece, and an poignantly intospective cat. The Missoula Oblongata employed their signature blend of dramatically lit physical comedy, cumbersome objects on the brink of archaic demise, actors who juggle multiple roles and characters that are played by multiple people. Oh, and they sometimes use puppets too.

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