Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 07:10:17 -0700 (PDT)
From: Gretchen Van Lente <gretchen-AT-dramaofworks.com>
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Shameless self promotion
To: puptcrit-driftline.org-AT-lists.driftline.org


Thanks for the continued support, Jamie!!

Love, Gretchen

> Jamie Ashby <jamie.ashby-AT-utoronto.ca> wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> For what it's worth, as one of the ADs of the FOOT
> festival mentioned below, 
> I'd highly encourage anyone who has a chance to see
> this show. The set design 
> is beautifully simple and effective, the Warhol
> puppet creatively designed and 
> expertly manipulated by a team of lovely and
> talented manipulators, and the 
> performing objects hilarious (the squeaky-toy priest
> was my personal fav'). 
> Not to be missed!
> 
> 
> All the best,
> 
> Jamie Ashby
> 
> PhD Candidate, Graduate Centre for Study of Drama,
> University of Toronto
> Cofounder, PuppUTopiate
> 
> Quoting Gretchen Van Lente :
> 
> > Drama of Works presents… 
> > 
> > Warhol™
> > 
> > Directed by Gretchen Van Lente 
> > Graphic design by Christine Licata
> > Sound design by Jill DuBoff
> > Costume and wig design by Mary Trumbour
> > 
> > Cast of Characters
> > The Soul of Andy Warhol will be played by a
> > bunraku-style puppet, designed and built by David
> > Michael Friend.
> > The Body (or movers of the Soul) will be played by
> > Serra Hirsch and James Walton.
> > The Right Brain (or creative side of the Soul)
> will be
> > played by John Ardolino.
> > The Left Brain (or cerebral side of the Soul) will
> be
> > played by Amy Carrigan.
> > 
> > Before the nose job and legal name change, Andrew
> > Warhola was a sweet gifted boy who loved his
> mother.
> > Society would love to believe he was a
> sex-obsessed,
> > druggie, party-hopper. But with pop icons, the
> truth
> > doesn't really matter, does it? In their latest
> > puppet-theatre piece, Drama of Works probes into
> the
> > double life of this consumerist icon, where a soup
> can
> > plays his mother and his life is literally boxed
> up
> > into his signature Brillo Pad creations. 
> > 
> > Presented as a part of New, New Stuff
> > Performance Space 122
> > 150 First Avenue, at East 9th Street
> > New York, NY 10009
> > Box Office: 212-477-5288
> > www.ps122.org 
> > 
> > April 28 - May 1, 2005
> > Post-performance party: April 28
> > Thursday - Saturday, 8pm
> > Sunday at 5pm
> > $15/$10 SPPPAA members
> > 
> > “…highlighting the Uprising’s weekend of
> pre-Fringe
> > lunacy will be a performance by New York's Drama
> of
> > Works, whose Warhol™ offers sly commentary on Andy
> > Warhol's controversial legacy—complete with a
> bunraku
> > puppet of the artist, a Campbell's soup can
> portraying
> > his mother and puppeteers donning his trademark
> wigs.”
> > 
> > —Chris Cummings, Philadelphia Weekly
> > 
> > Attached image: puppet by David Michael Friend;
> photo
> > by James Walton; photoshop by Christine Licata.
> > 
> > ******
> > 
> > “DRAMA OF WORKS invites the audience to re-examine
> > their notions of theatrical structure and method
> > without seeming self-important or compromising
> > accessibility.” (offoffoff.com)
> > 
> > “New York’s tightly organized satirists” (In
> > Pittsburgh), are known for their innovative works
> > “high on fantastic production value” (Village
> Voice)
> > that cross the line between actors and puppeteers.
> > “Whatever it is supposed to be, it isn’t boring.”
> > (Puppetmaster) Led by Artistic Director Gretchen
> Van
> > Lente (who also sits on the board of directors of
> > UNIMA-USA), they have performed around New York
> City
> > (CBGB’s, The Atrium, Clockworks Experimental
> Puppetry
> > Theatre, Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center, The
> > Culture Project, HERE Arts Center, Dixon Place,
> > Theatre for the New City, Surf Reality, Present
> > Company, P.S.122, Manhattan Theatre Source,
> Ensemble
> > Studio Theatre and in Brooklyn at Arts At St.
> Ann’s,
> > Galapagos Arts Space, BRIC and the Brooklyn Museum
> of
> > Art), plus all over Pennsylvania and New England
> with
> > their unique brand of theatre: gaining members,
> fans
> > and supporters along the way. 
> > 
> > Drama of Works has performed at four international
> > festivals to date: The Barents Region
> International
> > Puppet Festival in Oulu, Finland; The FOOT
> Festival of
> > Original Theatre in Toronto, Canada; The Istanbul
> > International Puppet Festival and The World
> Festival
> > of Puppet Art in Prague, where they received a
> special
> > award for BEST ORIGINAL ADAPTATION and were
> nominated
> > for Best Original Creation and Best Actor (Amy
> > Carrigan). 
> > 
> > Drama of Works was accepted into the program,
> “New,
> 
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