| Guest Artists |
LUMAN COAD
presents new Individual Productions by participants based on "Theater is Communication"
Luman Coad and his late wife Arlyn, founded Coad Canada Puppets in 1966. Their first major production was "Master Peter's Puppet Show" with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra. The company has toured in nearly twenty countries around the world and received numerous awards including both the President's and the Trustees' Awards from the Puppeteers of America plus seven Citations of Excellence in the Art of Puppetry from UNIMA-U.S.A. In 2006 Coad Canada Puppets were inducted as Pioneer Members in the British Columbia Entertainment Hall of Fame.
PAUL MESNER
presents "Spare the Rod, Spoil the Puppet!" an exploratory ensemble piece conceived and created using rod puppets built in rehearsal.
Paul Mesner, award winning puppeteer, author and performer, studied as a teenager with Lee Ridge in Lincoln, Nebraska before starting his own puppet theater in Omaha, and at the prestigious International Institute of Puppetry in Charleville-Mezier, France. He moved to Kansas City where in 1997 he founded the Paul Mesner Puppets. He still presents a full season in Kansas City and travels nationally to residencies, festivals and workshops, presenting lively performances of classic stories recast in contemporary terms. Audiences across the United States have delighted in the precise craftsmanship, dynamic presentation and joyful blending of humor and education in all his productions. Paul Mesner believes wholeheartedly in entertaining his audiences and doesn't mind including deeper meanings and life-lessons when no one is looking.
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| Video Anarchy |
MARTIN P. ROBINSON and TIM LAGASSE present
"The Bottle Stopper Project"Carved wooden animated bottle stoppers from Northern Italy, circa 1930... denizens of bar life, and distinct little personalities all. Enter a small, smoky, traditional old bar, peopled with all the colorful characters you would expect to see...until this small bottle stopper reality begins to cross over into the real world. |
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PUPPET ODYSSEY PRODUCTIONS
present "Robert's Etude" Ulysses Jones & Megan McNerney present the nexus of two parallel projects: a study of Meyerhold's system of biomechanics and its potential for application to puppetry; and the search for a fitting means of telling a true story of the life and death of one man, Robert "Woody" Woodward.
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Friday, June 13, 2008 at 7pm
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Saturday, June 14, 2008 at 7pm
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Tickets purchased online will be available at the box office prior to the performance. Enjoy the show!
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