CIMA FIELD TRIP: DEPERO PUPPET PLAYS AT BARD SUMMERSCAPE

 

July 10, 2016

Join us for a special excursion to Bard Summerscape to see Demolishing Everything with Amazing Speed, a surreal puppet fantasia based on four wild and beautiful plays written in 1917 by the Italian futurist artist Fortunato Depero, created by award-winning puppeteer Dan Hurlin.

Translated, designed, and directed by Dan Hurlin
Original Music by Dan Moses Schreier
Created by the ensemble
Produced by MAPP International Productions

WORLD PREMIERE

A wondrous elevator racing up to the heavens, a rich red woman with a single green eye, a baby smoking a giant cigar. . . . Award-winning puppet artist Dan Hurlin has created a surreal puppet noir based on four beautiful but disquieting plays written at the height of World War I by the Italian futurist artist Fortunato Depero. Hallucinogenic, fast-paced, and shot through with dark humor, these astonishing plays celebrate the energy and possibility of technology, while revealing the chilling parallels between their time and ours.

Hurlin, who lives and works in the Hudson Valley, discovered Depero’s scenarios during his Rome Prize Fellowship in Italy (2013-14). CIMA friends may remember that Dan first discussed this project, at the very beginning of his research, in a conversation at CIMA in the spring of 2014 during our first season — surrounded by the works of Fortunato Depero. He returned to CIMA in September 2015 to perform a reading of the plays, which have never before been translated into English, published, or performed. Hurlin’s unique fusion of puppetry, performance, music, and technology brings Depero’s images — sometimes whimsical, sometimes disturbing and violent — to life on stage for the first time. With a live score by Dan Moses Schreier and combining the latest technology, from 3-D printing to sound sampling, with centuries-old bunraku style puppetry, Demolishing Everything with Amazing Speed is a rapturous and wholly original wild ride.

On Sunday July 10th, Hurlin is giving a pre-performance talk at 1pm. CIMA is pleased to offer a special group rate discount. Bard Summerscape will be offering bus service to and from Lincoln Center that day.

Suitable for ages 12 and up.

$40 group rate (Bard’s bus service ($40 R/T) should be booked separately via this link).

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