Voice 4 Vision Puppet Festival at the Theater For The New City

The fourth annual Voice 4 Vision Puppet Festival will be presented from 29 Nov - 9 Dec 2007 at the Theater for the New City. The Festival will feature four different artists/companies in its main stage shows, running in repertory over the two weeks.

The Festival will feature four different artists/companies in its main stage shows, running in repertory over the two weeks. This year the mainstage featured artists will be

• Tin Lightning by Chris Green
• Tiger Plus: An Evening of Overhead Projection by Chinese Theater Works-(Kuang-Yu Fong and Stephen Kaplin)
• Night Shade by Carrionettes (Liz Adele Allen, Sarah Frechette, Jason Thibodeaux and Alain Z)
• The Jester of Tonga by Joseph Silovsky

The festival is co-curated by puppet theater artists Jane Catherine Shaw and Sarah Provost.

, by Chris Green, is an original dance/puppet piece about human fragility and humanity's bittersweet love affair with both important and disposable objects and our relationship with shelter. The piece will feature a variety of puppet styles including shadow puppetry, hand puppets, and object theater. It re-imagines simple objects - a blooming flower, a collapsible house, an exploding airplane, an umbrella - so that they become iconic performative objects. In blurring the distinction between performance styles, the three performers move effortlessly between the roles of puppeteers, actors and dancers.

, by Chinese Theater Works, is comprised of three plays:
'Tiger Tales,' a wise old rabbit tells her grand-daughter some of her adventures, recounting with verve and a sly, subversive humour some of the episodes surrounding Tiger's rise to power, his abusive rule and ultimate downfall. 'The Turkey Vulture' is the NYC premiere of a short piece about savage birds and the people who love them. The third play is still to be announced.

, by Carrionettes, follows two curious little girls as they enter a mysterious house where they are tempted by exotic sea monsters and dance in the tangled web of a demon. Steal into the pages of an ancient manuscript that will reveal the truth and beauty behind the secret "Order of Wolf." Witness the trials and tribulations of a young boy. The choices he makes to resurrect his possessed sisters and save his haunted town will decide all of their fates or be lost forever.

, by Joseph Silovsky, is a solo-performance work inspired by a true story about the colourful characters and history of Tonga - a small island country in the Pacific. The piece features a remote control animatronic marionette robot, two-dimensional cut-out puppets, toy theater-style miniatures, video projection, object theater, as well as many zany and wonderful gadgets.