ONE EYE GONE:
CalArts Festival Theater presents ONE EYE GONE, The Godzilla story re- imagined with an eco-consciousness, by playwright Erik Ehn and experimental puppeteer Katie Shook, in its 6th season on the fringe.
Los Angeles/Edinburgh CalArts Festival Theater presents the world premier of Erik Ehn and Katie Shooks One Eye Gone at Venue 13 for the 2009 Edinburgh Fringe Festival. One Eye Gone will open on August 8th and play through August 22nd, with a break on Monday, August 17th.
All shows are at 14:45.
In One Eye Gone playwright Erik Ehn and puppeteer Katie Shook adapt the original 1954 Japanese Godzilla film to tell a story of characters facing the threat of annihilation by a post-atomic monster. Four doll- sized puppet heroes, designed by Ms. Shook, struggle to understand and resist a man-sized monster in a story that is also an allegory for society's fears about unpredictable changes in both our environment and in our own psyches. The physical production aspires to be
environmentally sustainable by using recycled and "green" materials.
Lighting, sound and video elements are performer activated.
Puppeteers manipulate cameras and objects to open and transform the ordinary into a landscape that is hallucinatory and strange
Erik Ehn is the head of playwriting at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. Until recently Ehn was the Dean of the CalArts School of Theater. He collaborated with Janie Geiser, experimental filmmaker and puppeteer and the Director of the Cotsen Center for Puppetry and the Arts, on William Wilson: Invisible Glass, and Frankenstein: Mortal Toys. Other recent plays of his include Maria Kizito and The Saint Plays .
Katie Shook is a Los Angeles-based puppet artist. She has performed at The Manual Archives, the Santa Monica Museum of Art, the New York Toy Theater Festival, the Los Angeles Toy Theater Festival and with the Little Fakers. With a background in both movement and fine art, Ms.
Shook blends the mundane, irreverent and sublime in performance with puppets, found objects and invented worlds.
Venue 13 was launched in 1996 as an initiative by the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama to promote the best new talent from Wales on a world stage. Now run in Collaboration with the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), the 2009 season presents productions of emerging artists from Wales and California.
CalArts Festival Theater has partnered with Venue 13 for 6 seasons to expand programming to include the experimental work of the students and recent alumni of the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, California, USA, 35 miles north of Los Angeles.
Tickets may be acquired by calling the Venue 13 box office at 07074 20 1313
Or logging on to the Edinburgh Fringe website at http://www.edfringe.com |
