Mar 05—08, 2026
Dead as a Dodo
Wakka Wakka / from Norway & USA
An uplifting musical odyssey into the heart of friendship (and the underworld) with your tour guides: an extinct dodo and a skeleton boy.
Deep within the underworld, a skeleton Dodo and boy dig daily for fresh bones to replace their deteriorating ones, desperately trying to keep from disappearing. But one day, the Dodo miraculously sprouts feathers–and everything changes.
The transformation sends the two friends into a chaotic journey as they flee the wrath of the Skeleton King and fight to stay together as they are drawn into the heart of an epic battle between life and death.
From Wakka Wakka, Dead as a Dodo is an inspirational musical odyssey about true friendship and the will to survive against all odds. Together, the impossible can become the possible.
Info
Venue
Emerson Cutler Majestic Theatre
219 Tremont St, Boston, MA 02116
Dates
Mar 05, 2026 - Mar 08, 2026
Tickets
PACKAGES
Groups
Details
60 mins
Ages 7+
Access
Audio Described Performance
Sun, Mar 08 2:00 pm
Open Captioned Performance
Sat, Mar 07 2:00 pm
NOTE: OUR PRICES HAVE NOT INCREASED! ALL-IN PRICING is now in effect. In compliance with the H.R.1402 bill , we now list the total price of tickets, with no additional mandatory fees added at checkout.
Performances
Artists
Company
Gwendolyn Warnock & Kirjan Waage with the ensemble.
In collaboration with: Figurteatret i Nordland, Nord University, and The Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival.
Supported by: Arts Council Norway, Oslo Teatersenter, Sea-Cargo AS, and FFUK.
Directed by:
Gwendolyn Warnock and Kirjan Waage
Original music and sound design:
Thor Gunnar Thorvaldsson
Projection design:
Erato Tzavara
Lighting design:
Daphne Agosin
Figure design/puppet maker:
Kirjan Waage
Set and costume design:
Gwendolyn Warnock & Kirjan Waage Producer: Gabrielle Brechner
Cast:
Lei-Lei Bavoil, Alexandra Bråss, Andy Manjuck, Hanna Margrete Muir, Sigurd Rosenberg, Marie Skogvang Stork, Anna Soland, Kirjan Waage Original ensemble: Alexandra Bråss, Dorothy James, Andy Manjuck, Hanna Margrete Muir, Sigurd Rosenberg, Peter Russo, Marie Skogvang Stork, Anna Soland, Kirjan Waage
Prop and additional puppet making:
Lei-Lei Bavoil, Alexandra Bråss, Frida Vige Helle, Dorothy James, Andy Manjuck, Hanna Magrete Muir, Jack Markussen, Sigurd Rosenberg, Peter Russo, Marie Skogvang-Stork, Anna Soland
Additional prop making, painting and sewing:
Gro Sunde, Rosalie Arends
Gallery
Photo Credit: David Zadig
Photo Credit: David Zadig
Photo Credit: David Zadig
Photo Credit: Richard Termine
Photo Credit: David Zadig
Photo Credit: David Zadig
Photo Credit: David Zadig
Photo Credit: Erato Tzavara
Photo Credit: David Zadig
Photo Credit: David Zadig
Photo Credit: Richard Termine
Photo Credit: David Zadig
Photo Credit: Erato Tzavara
Photo Credit: Erato Tzavara
Photo Credit: Richard Termine
Photo Credit: Adam Kissick for APAP
“Like a Pixar movie come to life…a fantastical world inhabited by dastardly villains and innocent heroes…Like some of the best kids’ movies, there was a refusal to shy away from the rawest emotions and fears that we all share, and the purity of our protagonists meant that nobody could possibly bear to imagine anything bad ever happening to them.”
— Defector, Best Theater 2025
“Exhilarating whimsy”
— Slant Magazine, The Best Theater of 2025
“A dazzlingly inventive puppet show”
— The Paris Review
“The New Yorker’s Best Theatre of 2025: A virtuosic puppet show by the theatre company Wakka Wakka, about a dancing-skeleton boy and his extinct-bird friend”
— The New Yorker
“Dodo’s technical and emotional prowess practically guarantees you leave the theater talking, taken in first by the whimsical bones of the premise then blown away by its heart.”
— Broadway DNA Blog
“An overall experience that feels like a well-rehearsed symphony. The writing is funny as hell…One eye-popping scene follows another, and the show’s 80 minutes fly by.”
— TheaterMania
“It is among the most ceaselessly inventive pieces of theater I have seen in the past year. … morbidly poetic …immerses the audience in a fantastical universe”
— The New York Times