FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Press Contact: Sarah Olmsted Thomas, alexandolmsted@gmail.com

WORLD PREMIERE!

Really Quite a Lot of Mechanisms
at Baltimore Theatre Project

March 12-29, 2026

March 12 @ 7:30pm (Pay-What-You-Can)
March 13 @ 7:30pm
March 14 @ 3:00pm
March 14 @ 7:30pm
March 15 @ 3:00pm

March 19 @ 7:30pm
March 20 @ 7:30pm
March 21 @ 3:00pm
March 21 @ 7:30pm
March 22 @ 3:00pm

March 26 @ 7:30pm
March 27 @ 7:30pm
March 28 @ 3:00pm
March 28 @ 7:30pm
March 29 @ 3:00pm

REALLY QUITE A LOT OF MECHANISMS is a darkly comedic puppet show set in the not too distant Now when nations are at war, bad things happen to good people, and dropped toast always lands butter side down. Life is illogical but you know what isn’t? Mechanisms! The Lever! The Pulley! And, O! Hail the Inclined Plane! Life is full of chaos and confusion but, good people, take solace in the knowledge that just beneath the world we see, there are…Really Quite a Lot of Mechanisms.

DETAILS: 70 minutes, no intermission. All ages.

AWARD: 2026 Jim Henson Foundation grant

WHO: Alex and Olmsted* (Alex Vernon and Sarah Olmsted Thomas), winner of 4 Jim Henson Foundation grants, is an internationally acclaimed puppet theater and filmmaking company based in Baltimore. www.AlexAndOlmsted.com
*Please note the correct spelling of “Olmsted.”

TICKETS: https://theatreproject.org/really-quite-a-lot-of-mechanisms
General Admission: $25 | Students, Seniors & Artists: $15 | March 12: Pay-What-You-Can

Original theater poster by David Plunkert.