Plexus Polaire: Trust Me for a While

Plexus Polaire: Trust Me for a While

Festival favorite Plexus Polaire has added a second production sure to put an end to depressing contemporary meta-theater and crappy puppeteers.

Trust Me for a While brings us into the curious and rather fraught relationship between a failed magician and his professional puppet collaborator. In this wild, suspenseful and entertaining horror-comedy, director Yngvild Aspeli explores her fascination with the ventriloquist dummy. A show replete with off-the-rails mischief, it plays on the traditionally tense and intimate relationship between ventriloquists and their dummies while startling the audience with contemporary questions like What is real? What is fake? and How might our shared agreements, overt or otherwise, risk us flailing between the two? Trust Me for a While brings Aspeli “back to the bone, stripping off the skin, flesh and technical magic I normally rely on to build a raw story about the relationship between actor/puppeteer and puppet.”