Sunday, February 25th, 7:30 PM
Jalopy Theatre
315 Columbia Street, Brooklyn
Savor the flavors of new work by Great Small Works and Friends
and... Spaghetti To-Go!
$20 suggested donation, no one turned away for lack of funds.
Tickets available at https://www.viewcy.com/e/great_small_works_spa
or at the door
or at the door
Out of Covid safety concerns, we will not break bread (or spaghetti) together. but **Everyone will go home with a container of R. Rossi's special pasta!**
Masks required.
Featuring:
"Ten Sentences: On the Life of Robert Walser"
by Mark Sussman
A native of Biel, Switzerland, Robert Walser has been described as “a clairvoyant of the small.” A writer of keenly detailed observational prose, he published feuilletons, stories, and short novels in the early years of the 20th century. With limited means of support and suffering from a mental breakdown, he later moved to a sanitarium where he walked the countryside, producing no further writing. A collection of microscopic texts, written on the backs of visiting cards, envelopes, and matchbooks, was found in a shoebox after his death in 1956. Using a “cranky” – a hand-cranked moving scroll – with flat paper puppets and rear-projected video to evoke this solitary and contemplative life.
A native of Biel, Switzerland, Robert Walser has been described as “a clairvoyant of the small.” A writer of keenly detailed observational prose, he published feuilletons, stories, and short novels in the early years of the 20th century. With limited means of support and suffering from a mental breakdown, he later moved to a sanitarium where he walked the countryside, producing no further writing. A collection of microscopic texts, written on the backs of visiting cards, envelopes, and matchbooks, was found in a shoebox after his death in 1956. Using a “cranky” – a hand-cranked moving scroll – with flat paper puppets and rear-projected video to evoke this solitary and contemplative life.
"We Love Trees"
by John Bell, Trudi Cohen, Marji Gere and Dan Sedgwick
A paper theater play with live music by Gere (violin) and Sedgwick (piano) featuring a magnificent copper beech tree which grew in Somerville, MA, on the same land where the musical Hadley family lived in the early 20th century. It celebrates trees, and what we can learn from them. With texts from Peter Wohlleben, Robin Wall Kimmerer and Jill Jonnes, and music by Henry Kimball Hadley and Stevie Wonder.
A paper theater play with live music by Gere (violin) and Sedgwick (piano) featuring a magnificent copper beech tree which grew in Somerville, MA, on the same land where the musical Hadley family lived in the early 20th century. It celebrates trees, and what we can learn from them. With texts from Peter Wohlleben, Robin Wall Kimmerer and Jill Jonnes, and music by Henry Kimball Hadley and Stevie Wonder.
Excerpt from "Living Objects in Black," a film written and directed by Jacqueline Wade
A spiritual hybrid documentary film about various Black puppeteers who took part in the historical Living Objects: African American Puppetry exhibit at the Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry at UCONN.
Info: 917-319-8104
Great Small Works programs are made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. Additional thanks to: Puppet Slam Network, Scherman Foundation, and the Constance and Jarvis Doctorow Family Foundation.
