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Theater for the end times. Uncumber Theatrics believes in activating audiences. Audiences are our co-conspirators.

We want to challenge audiences to take charge of their theatrical experiences through immersive environments, improvised stagework, complicit storytelling, and interactive gameplay.

29/11/2023

Apparently, we burrowed into someone's mind. Thank you, mighty whomever.

BroadwayWorld Pittsburgh Awards - Best New Play Or Musical

24/11/2023

May your Friday be the blackest.

29/08/2023

Everything must go.

23/08/2023

"Patrons can expect to be both entertained and gain new knowledge about how diseases were treated in the 19th century."

(Tickets for closing weekend still available at: https://weebeasties.brownpapertickets.com/ )

Uncumber Theatrics guarantees to please with disease-themed shadow puppet show Blog Contributor: Isabella Abbott, Communications Intern A shadow play about "fleas, disease, and a girl named Louise" is sure to please audiences with Uncumber Theatrics’ expertise. The theater company, dedicated to .....

21/08/2023

"Employing puppetry, perspective, and phenomenal performers, this shadow play is something even Plato would be mesmerized by."

Joseph Szalinski says, "It's bizarre and brilliant." Read his full review of Uncumber Theatrics "Wee Beasties" right here.

https://burghvivant.org/2023/08/21/once-bitten-twice-entertained-a-review-of-wee-beasties/

17/08/2023

Time creeps towards opening night. Join us in our little nest tomorrow when the shadows converge...

16/08/2023

Everything is illuminated.

(Tix for Wee Beasties available at https://weebeasties.brownpapertickets.com/ )

Video credit: Cunning Folk Films

15/08/2023

"...at once fairy-tale-ish, cutesy, and macabre." Bill O'Driscoll at 90.5 WESA dissects the viscera of Wee Beasties.

(Tickets still available at: https://weebeasties.brownpapertickets.com/ )

"Wee Beasties" uses actors and puppets to depict a typhus outbreak in the 1880s.

13/08/2023

We have the cure for what ails you…

05/08/2023

Interactive pre-show flea circus before every performance!

27/07/2023

Tickets are now live at: https://weebeasties.brownpapertickets.com/

25/07/2023

“What is The Lumitorium?,” I hear you ask…

12/07/2023

Itching to start posting about this...

19/06/2023

Votive offerings—new, old, unexpected. The day is remembered. Only history can judge if it were enough.

09/06/2023

We don't mean to BUG you but... we do. We absolutely do.

Auditions are this weekend and some slots are already full. Sign up at https://tinyurl.com/WeeBeast to guarantee your spot! Walk-ins will be seen time permitting. Spread the buzz.

Read the full call at UncumberTheatrics.com/Auditions

01/06/2023

Take center stage whilst remaining in the shadows.

Uncumber Theatrics is searching for four performer-collaborators to help develop and further devise Wee Beasties, a shadow theater fairytale about fleas, disease, and a girl named Louise. If you are an actor/dancer/theater artist interested in working with movement, puppetry, and light & shadow, we invite you to share your unique voice and creativity with us to mold a role that is truly your own. All roles are open to all genders, ethnicities, ages (above 18+), and body types. Playfulness and cleverness a must.

Learn more at https://www.uncumbertheatrics.com/auditions

24/05/2023

Uncumber Theatrics is holding auditions for WEE BEASTIES--a shadow play about fleas, disease, and a girl named Louise--on Saturday, June 10th 1:00 PM-4:00 PM at the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh – South Side location.

We are looking for performers who can act in silhouette with clean, expressive movements that can convey what the face cannot. Each actor will also do puppet work throughout the piece, so we are looking for people who bring with them a sense of play and whimsey. As with all our productions, we seek out those who are willing to experiment and devise with us, and take active roles as creative contributors to a work-in-progress.

We are auditioning for FOUR main roles: MAN, WOMAN, CHILD, MONSTER. Any gender, age*, ethnicity, body type, etc. can play any role. *Auditioners must be over 18+. Each role will be given a stipend of $250.

Please prepare a 1-minute monologue which we may have you perform in profile, behind a light screen and/or with shadow puppets. Please bring a headshot and resume at this time. You can sign up for an audition slot here:

https://6fio6ee0oqz.typeform.com/to/maCKXnvB

If you are unable to attend auditions, video auditions can be submitted in .mp4 form, along with headshot and resume, to [email protected]. We ask that you incorporate silhouette or shadow into your video submission in some way. The deadline for video auditions is Monday, June 12th.

Performances will take place August 18th-27th at the Bitz Opera Factory in the Strip District (accessible from the 88, 86, 91, 87 and 54C/D bus lines). Rehearsals will start mid-July (schedule TBD). Feel free to ask any clarifying questions at [email protected].

22/05/2023

Coming soon…

09/04/2023

In this egg hunt, the prize isn’t hidden in what you find but what remains missing. Be the first one to name the missing piece, and glory awaits. Happy hunting.

*(Glory” in this case is likely free tickets tho if you are owed free tickets, something else will be arranged. Eggs will remain out until Wednesday because littering is wrong.)

04/01/2023

New year, new flea.

19/06/2022

Gone but not forgotten… or is it the other way around?

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Everything is illuminated. (Tix for Wee Beasties available at https://weebeasties.brownpapertickets.com/ ) Video credit: Cunning Folk Films

Wee Beaties Teaser

Uncumber Theatrics is holding auditions for WEE BEASTIES--a shadow play about fleas, disease, and a girl named Louise--on Saturday, June 10th 1:00 PM-4:00 PM at the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh – South Side location. We are looking for performers who can act in silhouette with clean, expressive movements that can convey what the face cannot. Each actor will also do puppet work throughout the piece, so we are looking for people who bring with them a sense of play and whimsey. As with all our productions, we seek out those who are willing to experiment and devise with us, and take active roles as creative contributors to a work-in-progress. We are auditioning for FOUR main roles: MAN, WOMAN, CHILD, MONSTER. Any gender, age*, ethnicity, body type, etc. can play any role. *Auditioners must be over 18+. Each role will be given a stipend of $250. Please prepare a 1-minute monologue which we may have you perform in profile, behind a light screen and/or with shadow puppets. Please bring a headshot and resume at this time. You can sign up for an audition slot here: https://6fio6ee0oqz.typeform.com/to/maCKXnvB If you are unable to attend auditions, video auditions can be submitted in .mp4 form, along with headshot and resume, to [email protected]. We ask that you incorporate silhouette or shadow into your video submission in some way. The deadline for video auditions is Monday, June 12th. Performances will take place August 18th-27th at the Bitz Opera Factory in the Strip District (accessible from the 88, 86, 91, 87 and 54C/D bus lines). Rehearsals will start mid-July (schedule TBD). Feel free to ask any clarifying questions at [email protected].

Wee Beasties