The Independent Eye
The Tempest 2009
Directed by Conrad Bishop
http://www.independenteye.org/plays/tempest.html
This production features 20 life sized puppets and five actor who blend in with the puppets. You can add puppets to any show, but adding puppets to The Tempest is special because of the supernatural elements. Adding puppets to this show adds to the fantastic elements of the play, it helps the audience believe in the magic that the play presents.
The Tempest 2009
Directed by Conrad Bishop
http://www.independenteye.org/plays/tempest.html
This production features 20 life sized puppets and five actor who blend in with the puppets. You can add puppets to any show, but adding puppets to The Tempest is special because of the supernatural elements. Adding puppets to this show adds to the fantastic elements of the play, it helps the audience believe in the magic that the play presents.
"Ariel and Prospero"
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Rogue Artists Ensemble
Pip 2003
Directed by Sean T. Cawelti
http://www.rogueartists.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=63&Itemid=112
This production moves the story from England to modern-day Manhattan. The visual style and the original score are all geared to emphasize the location, and it used puppets and masks. This production looks like it maximizes everything it changes. The classics are often thought as dusty old tomes, unapproachable, but this takes all of the important themes of the original and repackages it as something a modern audience can look at.
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Rogue Artists Ensemble
Pip 2003
Directed by Sean T. Cawelti
http://www.rogueartists.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=63&Itemid=112
This production moves the story from England to modern-day Manhattan. The visual style and the original score are all geared to emphasize the location, and it used puppets and masks. This production looks like it maximizes everything it changes. The classics are often thought as dusty old tomes, unapproachable, but this takes all of the important themes of the original and repackages it as something a modern audience can look at.“So, said Estella, 'I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me'” Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
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Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theatre
Hamlet 2007
Directed by Vit Horejs and Pavel Dobrusky
http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/30/46/30_46prince.html
This production features actors in black manipulating smaller marionettes. With the addition off puppets comes a genre shift. Hamlet becomes a bawdy, lewd, and approachable to children and teens. Drawing the attention of children and teens with amoral puppets doesn't mean they will understand it, but it gets the people in the same room.
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Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theatre
Hamlet 2007
Directed by Vit Horejs and Pavel Dobrusky
http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/30/46/30_46prince.html
This production features actors in black manipulating smaller marionettes. With the addition off puppets comes a genre shift. Hamlet becomes a bawdy, lewd, and approachable to children and teens. Drawing the attention of children and teens with amoral puppets doesn't mean they will understand it, but it gets the people in the same room. Wood you believe?: In the Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theatre’s “Hamlet, Prince of Denmark,” Nat Cassidy and this puppet play the title character.
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Majak + Jezek & Cizek
Faust 2007
Directed by Jakub Capka
http://www.radio.cz/en/article/94499
Faust is the most produced play in Prague, Outdoor theatre is not out of the ordinary, but this production is set in a "disused reservoir". Beyond that, all of the actors are homeless people - performing theatre in a sewer! The very idea is exciting. The environment and the performers combine to create this unusual piece of art. Very few of the actors have professional training, and all of them have been homeless at one point in their life. This experience changes the nature of their performance and promises a unique experience. Faust, photo: http://www.jezekacizek.cz/
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LaMaMa
Medea - 2008
Directed by Theodora Skipitares
http://www.playbill.com/news/article/115852-World-Premiere-Puppet-Medea-Begins-LaMaMa-Run-March-13
"Theodora Skipitares and co-designer Cecilia Schiller incorporate various styles of puppets into the production — including life-size Bunraku-style creations — as well as masks, live music and video."
--Adam Hetrick
Medea is a Greek play. The Greek theatre used masks to show emotion. This performance comes back to classic elements by incorporating masks and goes a step further by adding puppets. Having masks, puppets and live music performed by real people feels like a return to the old way of doing thing - which is not always a bad thing.
LaMaMa
Medea - 2008
Directed by Theodora Skipitares
http://www.playbill.com/news/article/115852-World-Premiere-Puppet-Medea-Begins-LaMaMa-Run-March-13
"Theodora Skipitares and co-designer Cecilia Schiller incorporate various styles of puppets into the production — including life-size Bunraku-style creations — as well as masks, live music and video."
--Adam Hetrick
Medea is a Greek play. The Greek theatre used masks to show emotion. This performance comes back to classic elements by incorporating masks and goes a step further by adding puppets. Having masks, puppets and live music performed by real people feels like a return to the old way of doing thing - which is not always a bad thing.
