Guest Artist Series

Playdoh Presents: The Cave of Despacito is a one-person variety puppet show reimagining Plato's Allegory of the Cave in a contemporary multiverse of comedic sketches. You can expect to inhabit a new reality where America is a Buffalo Wild Wings franchise, a post apocalyptic cult necromances a celebrity moose, you are attacked by a rabid email who is out for blood, and attend a Despacito-themed conference that makes you question our obsession with consuming media.

The show has been performed at many venues all the way up the coast from Atlanta to Vermont. 

  • TICKETS

    $10 - General Admission

    AGE RECOMMENDATION: 14 and up

  • PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE

    2 Nights Only!

    Wednesday, Aug. 31, 7:30pm
    Thursday, Sept. 1, 7:30pm

    RUN TIME: 1 hour

  • ACCESSIBILITY

    Contact Open Eye at boxoffice@openeyetheatre.org or 612-874-6338 for accessibility information and requests.

  • COVID PRECAUTIONS

    For the safety and peace of mind of our audience members, artists, and staff, Open Eye Theatre requires that audience members and staff wear face masks in the theatre. Masks must securely cover the nose and mouth and will be made available for those who arrive without them. Proof of vaccination is not required at this time. Open Eye bases our COVID-19 policies on the most recent CDC information. We greatly appreciate your compliance with this policy and thank you for helping to ensure that the show will go on!

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Zach Kolo (a.k.a. Playdoh) is a multimedia performance artist exploring contested spaces and animated objects. “I work as a prop and puppet maker and performer, creating work that irreverently comments on the way we structure our lives under capitalism, and the ways we try and fail to create and maintain authentic connections with one another. Puppetry performance and adjacent forms are uniquely situated to address how we perform and perceive ‘realness’ within the artificial hells of our bureaucratic and tech-driven world.”
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Zach is currently performing as Playdoh, touring a variety show of weirdo puppetry and performance art around the country. Within the show you may expect to learn an alternative version of Plato's Allegory of the Cave, witness a ritual from a Moose Cult in the year 2700, a puppet version of Marina Abramovic's Rhythm 0, a Redbox dispensing vegetables, and find out that God lied about the dinosaurs. 

 
 

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506 E. 24th Street
Minneapolis, MN

Free parking is available in the lot on the southeast corner of 24th Street and Portland Avenue, courtesy of Lutheran Social Services.