Voice 4 Vision 2009

Other Pieces in this year's Festival!
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Thursday, December 3-6, 2009
Billy Burns’ – “Hobo No-No”
Hobo No-no is an original play written for marionette theater that follows the Depression-era tribulations of Chicago hobo "Memphis" Tim, as he attempts to bravely run away from the National Guard, boxcar psychotics, short-tempered rail yard bulls, and his own personal demons.  The action unfolds across the landscape of 1930s America, on ten elaborate sets, with eighteen puppets speaking in rhyming pentameter.

Thursday, December 10-13 2009
Patti Bradshaw’s – “Next to the Last Poem” & “La Môme Bijoux”.
La Mome Bijoux, inspired by 3 photographs of a grand dame of the streets taken by the Hungarian photographer Brassai in Paris in the 1930’s.  And, Next to the Last Poem, based on an imaginary day in the life of the shy and prolific Portuguese poet, Fernando Pessoa,  (1888-1935), who dreamed up his own personal diaspora.