Uploaded March 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Really Quite a Lot of Mechanisms is a darkly comedic puppet show set in the not-too-distant Now when nations are at war, bad things happen to good people, and dropped toast always lands butter side down. Life is illogical but you know what isn't? Mechanisms! The Lever! The Pulley! And, O! Hail the Wheel and Axle! In Really Quite a Lot of Mechanisms, there is, at the center of the Earth, an unseen boiler room full of machines and the semi-capable technicians who operate them. Told with puppetry, simple machines, and physical theater, two workers perform their endless tasks, troubleshoot mechanical failures, and struggle to maintain productivity quotas under the watchful gaze of an all-seeing, unknowable foreman.
REALLY QUITE A LOT OF MECHANISMS was awarded a 2026 Jim Henson Foundation grant and a 2026 Creativity Grant from the Maryland State Arts Council.
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Really Quite a Lot of Mechanisms is a darkly comedic puppet show set in the not-too-distant Now when nations are at war, bad things happen to good people, and dropped toast always lands butter side down. Life is illogical but you know what isn't? Mechanisms! The Lever! The Pulley! And, O! Hail the Wheel and Axle! In Really Quite a Lot of Mechanisms, there is, at the center of the Earth, an unseen boiler room full of machines and the semi-capable technicians who operate them. Told with puppetry, simple machines, and physical theater, two workers perform their endless tasks, troubleshoot mechanical failures, and struggle to maintain productivity quotas under the watchful gaze of an all-seeing, unknowable foreman.
REALLY QUITE A LOT OF MECHANISMS was awarded a 2026 Jim Henson Foundation grant and a 2026 Creativity Grant from the Maryland State Arts Council.
alexandolmsted.com/really-quite-a-lot-of-mechanisms.html
