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Created, conceived, and performed by the Old Trout Puppet Workshop & David Rhymer.

Read a review in the Vancouver Straight

NOW on tour: Spring 2010

Vertigo Theatre
Calgary, AB
April 9 - 16, 2010

Vancouver East Cultural Centre
Vancouver, BC
April 27 - May 1, 2010

New West Theatre
Lethbridge, AB
May 5 - 8, 2010

Globe Theatre
Regina, SK
May 12 - 16, 2010

Banff Center
Banff, AB
May 21 - 23


Watch The Tooth Fairy Opening Song in Quicktime.

PRESS AND VENUES:
Click here for high resolution photos for download.

DOWNLOADS:
The Tooth Fairy Promo Page (.doc)
The Tooth Fairy Synopsis (.doc)
Edmonton Journal Review (PDF)

The Tooth Fairy treads the strange and beautiful line between childhood and adulthood: an odyssey from innocence to experience, a children’s book adapted for adults, an avant-garde puppet show adapted for children. What horrors accompany the loss of baby teeth, symbols of our innocence? Why, in the name of all that’s good, would we trade them for money, the source of all that’s evil?


The Tooth Fairy is a fantastical leap into the dark and troubling waters of our childhoods. It is a glimpse of what we have lost, what we have gained, and, most disturbing of all, what the Tooth Fairy does with all
those teeth.

The Old Trouts do not shy away from extravaganza. The Tooth Fairy is an unprecedented colossus of the puppet stage. Monsters! Cosmic curses! Sea battles! Foggy nights haunted by lurking defilers! The epic saga of every soul’s horrifying leap into adulthood enacted with puppets of edifying ridiculosity!


The Tooth Fairy
premiered at the High Performance Rodeo in 2001 and has since played in Edmonton, Halifax, and Ottawa. It’s also a book, published by Bayeux Arts/Raincoast, which is part of a series, "Preposterous Fables for Unusual Children."

"One of the best, most surreal works of imagination I’ve seen in ages."
See Magazine, Edmonton


















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