Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2002 16:58:50 -0500
Subject: PUPT: New York City Carnival of Samhain



WHAT TO DO IN NYC AFTER HALLOWEEN IS OVER?!?

Drama of Works' 
Carnival of Samhain

November 1st and 2nd, 2002 -AT- 10:30PM
HERE Arts Center (Club Space)
145 6th Avenue, New York, NY 10013 
www.here.org
212.647.0202
80 minutes long, no intermission
tickets $15.00

www.dramaofworks.com

Drama of Works introduces Carnival of Samhain, a Halloween puppet cabaret for the adult trick-or-treater offering fire juggling, live circus music, haunting imagery and guaranteeing a memorable post-Samhain evening at the theater.  

Performers for the Carnival were hand selected by Drama of Works company members and include many artists from the greater New York area…

Angie Pearl, circus arts performer, will start the evening off right by juggling fire outside the theater, enticing passers-by to enter, at their own risk. After entering the theater, the ritualistic Abbots Bromley Horn Dance will begin all around you with live music in tempo de spooky performed with deer antlers and characters in outrageous costumes. 

Then the audience will be bombarded by a slew of amazing acts of puppetry including Thanatopsis and an excerpt from Netherworld by Jonathan Cross' Cosmic Bicycle Theater, the literally mind-blowing Tragic Tale of the Tungston Triplets by Ceili Clemens and company, The Exile and the Egg based loosely on Lermontov's poem The Demon by Emily Wilson, the hellish nightmare Sonata Tarantella by Dramaton Theater, Lurking, watching, he's searching for you... by Sarah Frechette and her terrifying witch marionette, as well as a stunning shadow piece by DOW's own David Michael Friend. 

On top of all of this, Drama of Works weaves the entire evening together with the themes from Faustus. Throughout the night the seven deadly sins from their most recent, acclaimed production of Doctor Faustus will terrorize the audience to the tune of live, mesmerizing circus music and Mephistophilis is the ultimate stage manager.

The evening ends with a musical contribution from award-winning playwright Crystal Skillman. Her song GOOD/BAD based on William Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, given melody and voice to by Rebecca Honig with the sins on backup, will bring the evening to a magnificent end and send the audience home feeling glad they're all going to hell!

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ABOUT Drama of Works (www.dramaofworks.com) 
New York's tightly organized satirists" (In Pittsburgh) is 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) Over the last six years they have graced the lower east side (CBGB's, The Atrium, Clockworks Experimental Puppetry Theater, Los Kabayitos, HERE, Dixon Place, Theater for the New City, Surf Reality, Present Company Theatorium, P.S.122, as well as The Limelight, Ensemble Studio Theater, the Brooklyn Museum of Art and Arts at St. Ann's), Pittsburgh (Industrial Arts Co-op's Black Sheep Puppet Festival), Philadelphia (Christ Church as a part of the Fringe Festival and also Puppet Uprising) and Providence (Perishable Theater's Blood from a Turnip) with their unique brand of theatre: gaining members, fans and supporters along the way. "Drama of Works invites the audience to re-examine their notions of theatrical structure and method without seeming self-important or compromising accessibility…" Fate has lain before them the task of adapting, reinventing and retelling classic and historical tales with actors and puppets on stage together. "…This company will be around for a number of years to come. If you go see them now, you'll be able to say you knew about them before everybody did." (www.offoffoff.com) 

Drama of Works is a member of the Puppetry Guild of Greater New York, Puppeteers of America and UNIMA-USA. They are the recipients of a Henson Foundation Grant and an EST/Sloan Project Commission. They have participated in the O'Neil Puppetry Conference, the Arts at St. Ann's Puppet Lab, the Greenwich Village Halloween Parade and the American Living Room Series, among others.


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