with
"Puppet Kafka"
by
Drama of Works

"Circo Vida"
by
Yvette Edery

 

Friday & Saturday,
February 1 & 2, 2008 at 8:00pm Dixon Place
258 Bowery - 2nd Floor
New York, NY 100012

Tickets are; $12, $10 Stu/Sen

PUPPET BLOK features new works of puppetry, animation, music, and other innovative styles of performance by emerging and established artists from the NYC area. Branching out of Dixon Place's own mission statement to focus on experimental works, PUPPET BLOK provides an all-encompassing venue for alternative modes of storytelling.

Puppet Kafka is a speculation on the work, life and peculiar perspective of Franz Kafka as imagined for performance by puppets. Using the complete text of The Metamorphosis as the main framework, the play considers Kafka on terms specific to a piece of puppet theatre: in the closed black box space of Gregor Samsa’s bedroom three puppet versions of Kafka are manipulated by forces from the outside: the Gregor-Bug, a creature losing sense of the human being he went to bed as the night before as he learns how to use all his many new legs; Franz Kafka himself, a sickly creature and the cynical, suspicious center of his own works; and the small letter ‘k’, a permanently young and reticent character haunted by the imposing Humungo K, the authoritarian father figure like the one Kafka imagined stretched out flat on a map of his son’s own life, obscuring every territory.

Directed by Gretchen Van Lente
Written by B. Walker Sampson
Stage Management Amanda Pooran
Marionettes by MireK Trejtnar
Other Puppets Gretchen Van Lente

With John Ardolino, Deborah Beshaw, Jason Howard, Tatiana Pavela, Adam Sullivan & Scott Weber

Gretchen Van Lente is the Artistic Director of the puppet company, Drama of Works and has been performing, building and directing in the field of puppetry for over 6 years.

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Yvette Edery

Yvette Edery show snippets of her latest piece, Circo Vida: A Family Story.

Yvette Edery is a puppeteer and motion pioneer. Yvette is also an academic and professor of Puppetry in NYC which she teaches at Tisch, NYU.