Media
“Comic, macabre, and sublimely surreal” - The Globe and Mail
“Old Trout… will surely become one of the most vital and vibrant puppet companies in the world.” - Calgary Sun
“Someday very soon there will be a style of puppetry that will come to be known as ‘Old Trout-like’ – it’s just too good not to be imitated.” - Fast-Forward Magazine, Calgary
“Nothing short of genius.” -Ottawa Citizen
“Pure joy. Great, great theatre.” - CBC Radio
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“…a truly moving meditation on what it means to die.” -Toronto Star
“hilarious, beautiful and macabre… simply remarkable… too intense to allow its audience to catch its breath, too beautiful for them to want to.” - Fast-Forward Magazine, Calgary
“probably the funniest, wisest and most bizarrely clever show the Calgary collective has ever done – which is saying a lot… no end of highlights… a great black comedy.” - Calgary Herald
“…original…hilarious…breathtaking inventiveness…” - Georgia Straight
“If Walt Disney eviscerated fairy tales, the Old Trouts stuff the guts back in.” - Fast-Forward
“…an inspired, strange and very funny world that only the Trouts could create.” - Calgary Herald
“(a) masterpiece of magic and imagination….” - The Gauntlet