A Shoe for Your Foot

A filmed performance presented in the Forest Theatre and NC Museum of Art in Aug and Sept of 2007

Created by: Jan Burger and Donovan Zimmerman

Notes from the performance:
The over-arching theme for this show was simplicity and finding the beauty in the everyday. We chose the shoe as an iconic symbol of ordinariness and a need being met i.e.. a foot needs protection and the shoe fits nicely. A hat for your head, a kiss for your mouth, a show for your face... you get the idea. There is a certain satisfaction that comes with the fulfillment of these very basic needs. We feel that a good puppet show is one of them.

For us, the whole experience, from casting to load out, was very satisfying indeed. If not a bit of a challenge.

Some of the details or factoids of the show for those who are interested, are listed here:

• We began building puppets for the show on June 4th. We opened Aug. 11th. Next year we hope we will start earlier, because we nearly lost our minds.

• We would not have finished the show had it not been for Federica (our Italian Bread and Puppet veteran), and Elizabeth Albeck (our 1st intern). Both of them are fabulous artists and worked with us nearly everyday. Much of the credit for this show needs to go to them.

• About 40 gallons of "goop" was used and right around 500 brown paper bags. It was hard at times, because the deadline was always looming, but we got it done.