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VOICE 4 VISION FESTIVAL
Theater for the New City, 155 First Ave. (at E. 10th St.) Festival Website: http://www.theaterforthenewcity.net/puppet.htm SCHEDULE OF PERFORMANCES
$15.00. Admission includes $2 discount at all subsequent shows of this festival The Traveler is a trilogy of ghost stories that follow vagabonds on the road between "here" and "there" as they confront the forces that hold them back in their journey. Opening with an original dramatic adaptation of Richard Middleton's "On the Brighton Road", written in 1911, a tramp awakens on a snow-covered road, wondering how he got there. A young boy that might have the answer he seeks soon joins him. In the second tale, William Yeats' Purgatory (1922), a desperate father tries to redeem himself and his son by ending the cycle of transgression that has defined their lives. The final tale, K, was written for Dramaton Theater by Enma Ito, Artistic Director of Fantoma Theater Company of Osaka, Japan, and translated by Shima Ushiba. In it, the faceless ghost of a painter and a nameless street-wise alley cat help each other awaken their identities in a lonely world. Dramaton Theater uses a minimalist design with an original style of puppetry and an evocative soundscape, transforming the stage into a threshold between life and the beyond. The Traveler Created and Performed by Ken Berman and Frankie Cordero The Road and K Directed by Ken Berman and Frankie Cordero Purgatory Directed and K Co-Directed by Tim Lee Sound Design by Mark Berman • Lighting Design by Michael Spitzer Purgatory performed with permission by Samuel French, Ltd. |
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