Puppet Uprising Year-End Cabaret and Cheap Art Bazaar
TWO NIGHTS! Dec. 2nd and 3rd at 8pm. $5-$10 Suggested donation
Featuring experimental theater, dance and puppetry by:
idiosynCrazy productions // Sarah Lowry (Missoula Oblongata) & Beth Nixon (Ramshackle Enterprises) // The Agave Opera Company// Adelaide Windsome // Charlie Sarks // The Ragdoll Engine // Musical guest Matthew Schreiber // Snacks, local crafts and cheap art for sale!
idiosynCrazy productions presents: A Big Enough Grief: Directed by Jumatatu Poe with movement, text and performance by Jungwoong Kim, Jumatatu Poe and Will Robinson. Costumes by Katie Coble and music by Margel Overton. A Big Enough Grief is inspired by Lesley Mitchell's abstraction of Astor Piazzolla's song, Balada para un Loco, in her book titled the same. The work was first presented in the Philadelphia International Festival for the Arts in a collaboration with Philadelphia Center for the Book.
The Agave Opera Company performs Narcissus & Echo By craig Hendrix: A short American composition based on a short Greek myth, performed by a small Philadelphian ensemble. In English. The Agave Opera Company is from North Philadelphia. This is their second original work, following up their performance of Act IV of Missoula Oblangata and Puppet Uprising's Antony and Cleopatra earlier this year.
Charlie Sarks, an accomplished local theater artist, performs his first puppet show ever!
Sarah Lowry, Beth Nixon and accordionist Matt Schreiber are collaborating on a new piece of clown/puppet/dance theater to be performed in full at The Rotunda on Jan. 15, 16 and 17. Treehouses. Houseboats. Fracking. Mill Creek, Immortal Jellyfish...! For this cabaret they'll share with you some snippits of what they are cooking up to get you thirsty for the big January show! Beth and Sarah are currently artists-in-residence at the 40th St. A.I.R. program and have been creating theater and other weird things separately for many years, now they join forces to blow your mind.
Adelaide Winsome aka Geppetta performs: The Blue Piece: Geppetta is a queer fabulist, puppeteer, and multimedia artist. She creates puppet theater and performance art inspired by classic fables and fairy tales, occult myths and symbolism, street art, and surrealism infused with a pension for social/ environmental activism and feminist sensibilities.
The Ragdoll Engine presents: Preparedness Eulogy: A being arrives, ready in the case of emergency, armed with a suitcase's dream... The Ragdoll Engine is composed of several artists from varying disciples who range from electronic musicians to Rockettes. Their work has varies from dance, puppetry, clown and radio plays. The characters they create are often ripe for interruption; our puppet shows are stories for grown children and are often performed first on the street. Overall we look to create an uncanny experience for our audience; participation is welcome. Responses have included, "I'll never look at a banana the same way again," "Where did you come from?!" and, "Are you passing out the acid at your show?"
AND between acts: More of the awesome accordion action of Matthew Schreiber!
TWO NIGHTS! Dec. 2nd and 3rd at 8pm. $5-$10 Suggested donation