Die, Die, Die, Old People, Die!

Geriatric puppets. Raw hands. Live video. No illusions.

A tragi-comic puppet fever dream, Die, Die, Die, Old People Die! is a radical adaptation of the cult classic by Ridiculusmus, where Norman, V and Arthur are 120 years old, in a love triangle, and dying of old age.

Watch in delicious discomfort as cinema collides with live puppetry. Performers manipulate puppets in full view, while live-streamed video drags you uncomfortably close.

Intimate. Invasive. Impossible to look away from.

Remounted after a sell-out season at the 2025 Melbourne Fringe Festival, and developed with original creator David Woods, this is puppetry at its most unflinching, stripping back the curtain on death, desire, and the messy bits in-between.

Proudly part of the Melbourne Festival of Puppetry