Friday, June 21
7:00 pm
DC Indymedia Center, 2329 Champlain St., NW
Shoddy Puppet Company & Ramshackle Enterprises present: PUPPETRY PALINDROME
"An Absurd Array of Tabletop Theatrics and Cardboard Capers for a Reversible
World." Includes: "TWO AND A HALF THOUGHTS ON PELICANS" by Beth
Nixon-Drowning in a sea of information, a woman is lifted aloft in the pouch
of a giant avian and given a bird's-eye view of our planet and all its fishy
details (puppets and cantastoria). "THE PLANE" by Morgan FitzPatrick
Andrews-Winged machines from afar descend upon unsuspecting civilizations, carrying
strange cargo in a surrealistic ballet of two-dimensional globalization (toy
theater). "AMORAL AROMA" by Beth Nixon-Meet the Gambler Who Won A
Pig, the Woman With No House, the Brother That Can Hear and the Drycleaner Who
Doesn't Care in the giant waiting room of Dr. Awkward and his healing palindromes
(hand-puppetry). Morgan and Beth have each been using puppetry as a tool for
community organizing for the past four years. Their work has been showcased
at the Puppetropolis International Festival in Chicago, the Black Sheep Festival
in Pittsburgh and at the Bread & Puppet Theater in Vermont. Last summer
they helped to organize Puppetual Motion - a collective of puppeteers and circus
performers that tour by bicycle, performing at farms, colleges and activist
events, like the Tour For Cure AIDS Ride, and assorted rallies up and down the
East Coast. Beth recently corralled an entire town into a giant puppet pageant
in Yaak Valley, Montana, while Morgan was sharing his puppetista tactics with
young upstarts around Brazil. Both reside in Philadelphia where they occasionally
build parades with Spiral Q Puppet Theater and curate a quarterly cabaret called
the Puppet Uprising. http://www.duncanbusser.com/uprising
$5.00 donation at door to benefit the DCIMC. Party to follow with 2 bands. Contact:
(215)729-2809 or shoddypuppet@hotmail.com.