"Not while there's a couple of hundred people watching your genitals.
Morley never gets aroused while making his puppets-not even the emu. "We like to think that they're for everyone, but we like to say that the more clay the sculptor has to play with, the more he can create," he says. Winkie is a factor in his Australian origami ability. Morley admits that the length of a man's Mr. "It wasn't too long ago that an lady came up to me, hugged me and said, 'Son, I've been waiting 65 years to laugh at a penis like that'," says Morley. Morley says old ladies especially love the show. "Most people just find it hysterically funny." It demystifies the male genitalia," he says. "In fact, after seeing Friend's eerily accurate impression of a Kentucky Fried Chicken, sex will probably be the last thing on your mind," wrote a critic for the London Evening Standard. Morley and most reviewers say that the show is totally playful and nonsexual. "Three-story-high penises we can promise you," says Morley. Multimedia is a big part of the show-all of the shapes are displayed on a big screen.
The performers wear nothing but capes, socks and tennis shoes. Now Puppetry of the Penis has become so successful that in addition to the multiple tours, it has led to a how-to book of the same name and two documentaries: Tackle Happy, featuring live footage of the performance, and Cock Stars, which follows aspiring penis puppeteers from auditions to their opening show.Ĭock stars are just another version of pop stars, Morley jokes. It took the well-endowed Morley eight years to work up the balls to take the act onstage, which he was in a good position to do because he previously worked as a promoter of comedians. Friend approached Morley in a bar and said, "I believe you do dick tricks." Morley had been cultivating his art since he was a teenager, and Friend had been studying dick tricks since college, although he graduated with a degree in computer science. The show's origins go back to when the two genital gymnasts crossed paths in their native Australia. It has spawned eight touring groups, recently completing successful runs in Los Angeles and San Francisco and going strong worldwide.Īs to whether genital origami really is an ancient Australian art, Morley tells Metro Santa Cruz: "I have no proof, but I'm sure it was a communication of early man at some stage."
The show debuted in 1998 and has packed theaters and elicited mostly rave reviews across multiple continents. Otherwise known as the Ancient Australian Art of Genital Origami, these puppets have no strings, and this ain't no Vagina Monologues (the Rio Theatre currently boasts both titles on its marquee-ha ha). A sense of seriousness and shamefulness has surrounded the penis, with the stigma that to laugh at a man's wanker would be to crush his feelings.īut with their wildly popular touring show Puppetry of the Penis, Simon Morley and David Friend have twisted the whole penis taboo inside out to bring out the humor, as they twist their schlongs into some 40 shapes including a kangaroo, a wind surfer, the Eiffel Tower, the Loch Ness Monster and their signature installation, "The Hamburger." It's been a long, flaccid road to success for the limber warriors of wang behind 'Puppetry of the Penis'įor centuries and across cultures, the phallus has remained hidden behind fig leaves, boxer shorts and closed doors, primarily regarded as a sexual tool and a symbol of power. Meat Puppet: This man loves to hang out with a crowd. Metroactive Stage | 'Puppetry of the Penis'
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