Secrets History Remembers

Presented by: Evolve Company

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

Description:

Picture a seven-foot-tall Victorian doll whose body opens up to reveal an entire cast of characters living inside her - singing cereal boxes, dancing pill bottles and giant soft drink containers that blast off into outer space. This doll believes in a world where using the right shampoo could win you the love of your life...but is it really that simple? What happens when you put the easy answers aside and stop choosing to be safe? Creator/performers Tanya Khordoc and Barry Weil create a live multimedia collage, using toy theater, object manipulation and video imagery to take you on a surreal, satiric journey across the decades.

Company Bio:

Evolve Company has been playing with puppets very seriously since 1996. Productions include Evolution (at HERE Arts Center, The Puppeteers of America National Festival and The Looking Glass Theatre, among other venues), which the New York Times acclaimed for its "really intelligent design"; the world premiere of former Czech President Vàclav Havel's play Motormorphosis, as part of Untitled Theatre Co. #61's Havel Festival; and Brains & Puppets, two puppet plays about young people with neurological conditions. They most recently contributed puppets and models to Untitled Theater Co. #61's production of Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle at Walkerspace in Soho, and were praised by the Village Voice for their "ingenious miniature sets". They are dedicated to pushing the envelope of puppetry, and never doing the same thing twice.

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