Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival Presents LIVING ROOM TOUR – Preview

WHEN:

October 1 - October 4, 2020

WHERE:

Chicago, Glencoe, and Lake Geneva, Wisconsin

TICKETS: $150+

For tickets visit the Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival website

Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival presents an outdoor meal and a private performance of contemporary puppetry set against an architecturally significant backdrop.

Each event will showcase puppeteers performing two different shows featuring diverse puppetry styles.

Sounding the Resonant Path, a new work by Perry Yung, Tom Lee and special guests, draws on the spiritual connection between humans and nature. Audiences will witness an artist, seeking the unknowable, encounter the growing bamboo and tree, whose harvested material is crafted into the artistry of the flute and the puppet. Japanese kuruma ningyō style puppetry and multiple, illuminated shadow scrolls play out this wordless tale to the accompaniment of taiko drums, shamisen and shakuhachi flute.

I Am the Bear, a contemporary work on modern policing techniques; or, the consequences of "walking while Black,” is by Jerrell L. Henderson, a director, puppeteer, and assistant professor of performance studies at Chicago State University.

Fall 2020 Living Room Tour dates and locations are:

Thursday, October 1, 5:15 p.m.

An outdoor garden in a vintage Tudor private residence in north suburban Glencoe

Hosted by Nina and Steve Schroeder

Friday, October 2, 5:15 p.m.

Rockwell on the River, 3057 N. Rockwell in Chicago’s Avondale neighborhood

New event space on the North Branch of the Chicago River

Hosted by Paul Levy and Mia Park

Co-hosted by Elizabeth Basile

Saturday, October 3, 4:30 p.m.

A rustic dairy barn turned puppet studio on an organic farm outside Lake Geneva, Wisconsin

Hosted by Blair Thomas and Sheri Doyel

Co-hosted by Jackie Zydeck and Ted Phillips

Sunday, October 4, 11:30 a.m.

Lake Geneva, Wisconsin

Hosted by Blair Thomas and Sheri Doyel

Co-hosted by Maureen Mizwicki, Kim Ohms and Joe Novelli

Note:

All Fall 2020 Living Room Tour events will be limited to small numbers with social distancing in place. Guests are asked to wear a face covering at all times except when sitting to eat or drink. Appropriately distanced mingling with masks is encouraged.

Friday night’s event is outdoors and will not be re-scheduled for inclement weather. In case of rain Saturday or Sunday, events will be moved to very large indoor spaces at the same address.

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For more information, visit the Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival website.

All photos courtesy of Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival.