The Sublime Beauty Of Hands and Klown Kantos at Theatre Zarko

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."

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."