La MaMa Puppet Festival Is Not The Lion King
November 2, 2018 Leave a comment
Food for the Gods is about the killing of black men; Exodus addresses the current refugee crisis; Blind is a solo work about disability. These may not sound like typical subjects for puppet shows, but little about the La MaMa Puppet Festival fits most audiences’ preconceptions about the art form, as I explain in my article on the festival for TDF Stages, These Puppet Shows Aren’t For Kids. Below are photographs from some of the 27 puppet shows in the festival, some as short as five minutes, none longer than 75.
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Food for the Gods
Exodus
Federico Restrepo with his first-ever puppet, Loca 7
puppets in storage at the La MaMa archives
Ralph Lee, puppet artist
Blind
Everything Starts From A Dot by Nekaa Lab / Sachiyo Takahashi
Don Quixote Takes New York
Food for the Gods
Tian Wen: Heavenly Questions for Modern Times
Wunderkammer
While You Are Out
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