Chicago Puppet Fest and Poncili Creación present
The Midnight Show
It’s a one time only event, Puerto Rican punk-DIY performers Pablo and Efrain Del Hierro, identical twin brothers, let loose and challenge institutional and theatrical norms. You won’t believe your eyes when they pull out all the stops at this midnight show.
This performance is for adult audiences.
TICKETS
$21 General Admission
$16 Seniors/Students
About Poncili Creación
Poncili Creación is an experimental art collective from Puerto Rico, led by twin brothers Pablo and Efrain Del Hierro. They create surreal performances using large-scale puppets and sculptures crafted from repurposed materials. Known for their bold and improvisational style, Poncili Creación often performs in public spaces, blending puppetry, live music, and storytelling to challenge conventional theater boundaries. Their work embodies a mix of playfulness and philosophical depth.
About the Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival
The 2025 Chicago Puppet Fest will span 12 days and dozens of Chicago venues, presenting an international pageant of puppet artists sharing more than 100 puppetry activities. Get set for all-ages spectacle shows in landmark theaters, intimate works on smaller stages, and the always popular, adults-only, late night puppet cabarets.
With hundreds of artists and civic leaders working around the globe and here in Chicago to make it happen, we aim to fan a fire in you that inspires your vigor and heats your soul. We offer a unique and broad range of work from around our planet. You’ll find the puppet particularly adept at embodying the supernatural with such tales as Dracula or The Cabinet. Likewise the puppet holds the gravity of powerful dramas such as Life & Times of Michael K and The House by the Lake. And equally capturing a comic world of I Killed The Monster. Revel with us in the return of Chicago’s jewel: The Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival! Learn more at https://chicagopuppetfest.org/#.
ADDITIONAL PUPPET THEATER FESTIVAL PROGRAMMING AT LINKS HALL