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The Sublime Beauty Of Hands and Klown Kantos
Theatre Zarko
927 Noyes Street Evanston
Created for the Infinitesimals Festival at Links Hall in Chicago in 2004 and remounted for the Winterroot Festival at Links Hall in 2005 and the Tulipanes Festival in Holland, Michigan in 2007, this piece explores the vicious cycle of modern technology that destroys and then attempts to redress the wrongs it creates. "Sublime Beauty" is paired with "Klown Kantos", a set of seven short comic pieces.
Listen to "Talk Theatre In Chicago" for an interview with Michael Montenegro, the artistic director of the newly-founded puppet theatre, Theatre Zarko, who joins Anne Nicholson Weber to talk about the unique capabilities and limitations of puppet theatre.
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Watch a video preview of The Sublime Beauty Of Hands and Klown Kantos
Thru - Nov 15, 2009
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7:30pm |
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7:30pm |
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3:00pm |
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Price:$15
Show Type: Performance Art
Box Office: 847-350-9275
www.zarkotheatre.org
Review Round-Up
| Chicago Tribune - Highly Recommended
"...Theatre Zarko describes itself as "puppet symbolist theater," and that is especially true of "The Sublime Beauty of Hands," in which those marvelous human limbs are depicted as everything from birds in flight to mechanized prostheses, alternately trying to transcend the limitations of being human, reduced to cogs in a machine as various objects "change hands," and finally celebrating the simple grandeur of a handshake."
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Chicago Reader - Highly Recommended
"...Michael Montenegro's puppets run an astounding gamut, from tiny Punch and Judy figures to a headless, life-size doppelganger of the puppeteer. Most beautiful is a delicate moving sculpture of bones in the 2004 Sublime Beauty of Hands, which tells an oblique, poetic story about evil munitions makers, the vulnerability of the body, and the limitations of puppetry. Matters turn much less serious in the delightful Klown Kantos: six very funny puppet bits, loosely connected by the ensemble's clowning."
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