Adam and Eve as Puppets

MORNING OF JUNE 16, 2010

I was in some strange location late at night with a couple of friends. We were in some kind of dilapidated concrete room and there was a bizarre puppet show taking place.

The "puppets" were almost life-size people. There was a male and a female, and they represented Adam and Eve. From the way they moved, it looked as though they were actual people in costumes. The bodies were covered in skintight, flesh-colored fabric (the girl costume even had fake breasts with visible nipples painted on). The heads, however, were oversize masks that moved more like traditional puppet heads. They were very ugly, and more than a little disturbing to behold.

"Adam and Eve" pantomimed on an "Eden" set compiled mostly of cheap, fake trees and potted plants. There was a large black cauldron steaming in the middle of this set, and somehow Adam and Eve got thrown into it. They writhed as they supposedly were cooked alive.

My friends and I left this odd bit of performance art feeling very unnerved. Stepping outside into the night air, we looked into the sky to see some kind of UFO hovering overhead. It was maybe the size of a small ship, shaped like a cylinder that tapered at the top. Blinking lights ran all up and down the sides. It actually looked fairly low-tech.

One of my friends began to describe, in a calm but serious manner, how the aliens were coming to earth to take it over, and the "puppet" play we'd just witnessed had something to do with it.

Scary.