DAVID KINDER Puppets get a bad rap. Modern culture relegates them to the roles of toys, antiques, or—most commonly—terrifying murder dolls. But puppetry is one of the earliest forms of performance and, for thousands of years, civilizations all over the world have used it to tell stories and move audiences. So it’s exciting to see […]
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Artists Repertory’s Wolf Play: Puppets Are Back! Second Chance Adoptions Are Real!
In playwright Hansol Jung’s astounding new work Wolf Play, Christopher Larkin plays both a boy and a wolf.
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Hand2Mouth’s The Art of Blushing and The Lazarus Complex Are Two Haunting Plays about Suicide
Image by Mike Pham Suicide haunts us. Not just the sudden absence of a person who ends their life, or the questions left unanswered, but how it rattles your sense that wanting to live is the status quo. Portland writer Ben Moorad has been haunted by 124 people who attempted to end their lives in […]
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TBA: Kaneza Schaal’s Jack & Mixes Theater, Stand-Up, Dance, Music, and Ritual
JACK & TJ Acena JACK & is a fitting show to start TBA. Kaneza Schaal mixes theater, stand-up, dance, projections, music, and ritual, encompassing the full spectrum of acts you might see at the festival. In the performance, Jack (Cornell Alston) is an ex-con working at an industrial bakery who one night decides to bake […]