Robopocalypse: the Musical! ... tour finale in Ashland

Name: Robopocalypse: the Musical! ... tour finale in Ashland
Start: 2025-09-06T20:00:00-07:00
Location: Oregon Shakespeare Festival

Schedule

Sat, 06 Sep, 2025 at 08:00 pm

UTC-07:00

Location

Oregon Shakespeare Festival | Ashland, OR

Fresh off their celebrated national tour, Puppeteers for Fears, the Rogue Valley's own all-puppet horror and science fiction musical comedy troupe, returns home to Ashland with a terrifying and hilarious new work: ROBOPOCALYPSE! The Musical!, a hilarious cyberpunk escapade exploring the meteoric rise of artificial intelligence on a world still struggling to remember our email logins.
$15-$25. Doors: 7:30 pm. Show at 8 pm. All ages allowed (PG-13 rating).
Performance will take place at The Oregon Shakespeare Festival's "New Place" (the building between the Black Swan and the Thomas Theater)

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News flash! City name and date! The near future! New developments in artificial intelligence have gone… not as planned. And now the robots are taking over—unless plucky teen hacker, Jolie Daniels, screen-name Ha.G., and the bot she made from spare parts from her parent’s garage, can stop the armies of sentient appliances she accidentally loosed on the world.
From Puppeteers for Fears, the company that brought you Cthulhu: the Musical!, and The Cabaret at the End of the World, comes a hilarious cyberpunk fever-dream: ROBOPOCALYPSE: The Musical!
Featuring thirteen new songs, an analog synthesizer driven score, an all-puppet cast, more multimedia elements than you can shake a stick at, and a wickedly stylish 1980s visual aesthetic, ROBOPOCALYPSE: The Musical! is Puppeteers for Fears’ most ambitious show ever, and is sure to dazzle and astonish.
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Runtime is approximately two hours, with one intermission.
This show contains some adult themes and language. If it were a movie, it would be rated PG-13. Children should be brought only at parent's discretion.
Though there are no strobes, this show will make heavy use of lighting effects and those with severe photosensitivity issues should be aware before viewing.
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Written and composed by Josh Gross. Directed by Hunter Prutch. Starring Alyssa Mathews, Forest Gilpin, Owen Webb, Rachel Routh, Alex Giorgi, Brianca Knight, and featuring special musical guest, Blunderbusst.

BIO
Puppeteers for Fears is an Oregon-based comedy troupe, specializing in original horror and science fiction rock’n’roll musicals performed with puppets. The company was founded as a one-night-only cabaret show for Halloween 2015, but was so popular that it kept going and never looked back. In the time since, PFF has written and performed a half-dozen original feature musicals covering everything from supernatural monsters to killer robots to lonely sasquatches, performed all over the US on six tours, and sold out venues nationwide with its innovative and hilarious combination of puppetry, video, and live music.