Great Small Works Spaghetti Dinner at the International Puppet Fringe Festival

 

Friday, August 13, 2020

8:00 PM

LIVE and FREE for a limited audience!

Live-streamed online for everyone else!

Due to pandemic restrictions, there will NOT be spaghetti.

Live performance will be presented OUTDOORS.

Featuring:

CHINESE THEATRE WORKS

Excerpts from Three-Scale Zhongkui!

BOXCUTTER COLLECTIVE / BREAD AND PUPPET THEATER

Excerpts from The History of Laughter

BRUCE CANNON

Songs from Harlem River Drive

MUSIC BY PIEDMONT BLUZ

Valerie and Benedict Turner

For free tickets:          http://puppetfringenyc.com

For online viewing:     www.facebook.com/GreatSmallWorks

Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/510960066822644

Hosted by your friends at Great Small Works:

John Bell, Trudi Cohen, Stephen Kaplin, Jenny Romaine, Roberto Rossi, Mark Sussman

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Piedmont Bluz

Valerie and Benedict Turner

        Piedmont Bluz is an acoustic, husband/wife duo, ambassadors of Country Blues music and the Piedmont style of finger-picking. Their mission is to help preserve these rural, east coast traditions by educating audiences about this unique aspect of African American culture through musical entertainment.

Boxcutter Collective / Bread and Puppet Theater

        Excerpts from The History of Laughter, a collaboration between Peter Schumann of the Bread and Puppet Theater and Boxcutter Collective (including Lindsay McCaw), initially created during a 3-week residency in spring of 2021. The History of Laughter looks at the role of fear in our society, and how the transcendent power of fools can subvert the crumbling empire and empower the masses to create something new instead. With appearances by Mikhail Bakhtin, Gargantua, the Suffering Valley, Santa Claus, and Satan!

        Boxcutter Collective is comprised of four core members: Sam Wilson, Jason Hicks, Tom Cunningham and Joe Therrien, with an extended family of puppeteers, painters, performers, builders, educators, workers, union organizers, and mischief makers who have been working together in various forms for the last 15 years. You can find them creating and performing original High-Art, Low-Concept political puppet shows in New York City regularly, appearing at The Jalopy Theater and Coney Island USA and beyond! They are currently working on a commission from Handmade Puppet Dreams to create a short film.

Bruce Cannon

        Songs from Harlem River Drive, which celebrates the history and diversity of one of the most famous neighborhoods in the world. Harlem.

        Bruce Cannon is Artistic Director for the Swedish Cottage of Marionette Theater and the President of the Puppetry Guild of Greater New York.

Chinese Theatre Works

        Excerpts from 3-Scale Zhongkui!  -- The Chinese Judge of Hell brings Justice to the Lower East Side. 

        Yuling Fang as Chinese Opera Zhongkui

        Jing Shan as Hand Puppet Zhongkui

        Stephen Kaplin and Harrison Greene as Giant Puppet Zhongkui

        Chinese Theatre Works, co-directed by Kuang-Yu Fong and Stephen Kaplin, brings together Chinese and Western performance styles and techniques. Its programs cut across ethnic and cultural boundaries and aim at sparking interest in Chinese cultural traditions among the wider public, as well as in Chinese Americans who have not had access to this part of their heritage.