BRIDE

Presented by: Kevin Augustine's Lone Wolf Tribe

Country of Origin: New York City, New York, U.S.A.

Description:

While God the Father struggles with dementia, the dismembered Mother Goddess crawls through the dark of heaven's basement; calls for salvation go unanswered as the world below spins closer toward Armageddon; tick tock, tick tock... Bride remembers the bloody shift from polytheism to monotheism, conjuring a 4,000 year old love story whose partnership has been long forgotten, and whose reunion may be our only hope.

First performed at PS122 in NYC, BRIDE was hailed "Astonishing; jaw-dropping; and heart-breaking by Time Out New York, "brilliant and disturbing creation myth" by Backstage, "Monumental, epic, and audacious" by NYTheatre.com, "An eerie creation myth that conjures an otherworldly dystopia" by Village Voice; and Eileen Blumenthal described BRIDE as having some of the darkest, most frightening images that she had seen in the realm of puppet theatre.

Company Bio:

Lone Wolf Tribe is a puppet theatre ensemble creating visceral and challenging multidisciplinary work since 1997. Tribe productions are virtuosic, psychologically dark and brutally poetic; deceptively simple (using elegant theatrical minimalism) or rigorously complex (employing aerial puppetry sequences), the common denominator is Artistic Director, Kevin Augustine and his tribe of foam rubber puppets.
Acting in the plays he writes while animating the puppets he makes, Augustine explores the terrifying edges of existence and creation, while touching the heart and breaking it sometimes.

Lone Wolf Tribe productions have been published, toured internationally, (Africa and Holland) won excellence awards from both the NYC and S.F. Fringe festivals and been supported by The Jim Henson Foundation, The Greenwall Foundation New York State Council on the Arts, The Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, The Axe Houghton Foundation, The Puffin Foundation and Puppeteers of America.

LWT productions has been developed through residencies at the Ontological Hysteric Theatre, HERE Arts Center, Brooklyn Arts Exchange, Abrons Art Center and the Mac Dowell Colony.
Lone Wolf Tribe's current production in process is KILLER: a blend of puppets, history, and true-life characters, which takes a terrifying look at the sociopathic intellect.

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