“If Politics Is Public Storytelling, Then Puppet Theater Is a Natural Political Medium”
BY BYRON WOODS
SEP. 24, 2019
In a darkened room, a woman croons a dark song, a capella: “A man hangs from the Tyburn Tree / His deathbed made of rope / And strong nails kill his hopes of ever climbing down.” As she kneels, the shadow puppets she manipulates enact a stark story from the history of capital punishment; it unspools slowly across the surface of an overhead projector and is cast upon a nearby wall.
Baltimore puppeteer and performance artist Rae Red’s Shadow Ballads is one of the mainstage productions in the region’s second Radicackalacky Puppet Convergence, a four-day festival of puppetry and social activism featuring artists and companies from across the South.
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If Politics Is Public Storytelling, Then Puppet Theater Is a Natural Political Medium– IndyWeek