New York State Puppet Festival@Home Series Continues with Eden
With the new year comes new beginnings, and what better way to begin 2021 than with a brand-new live-streamed puppet performance from the New York State Puppet Festival@Home series, with the inimitable Tom Lee, and his new multimedia puppet performance, Eden! Join us Friday 1/22 and Saturday 1/23 at 7pm for this original multimedia puppetry performance, streamed live on Zoom! Tickets range from $0-$15, and can be purchased on Eventbrite.
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About EDEN: When a research vessel crash lands on an alien planet, they discover an impenetrable society with a terrifying secret. Based on the novel by Polish science fiction master Stanislaw Lem, this solo live performance event uses puppetry, shadow screens, moving panoramas, stop motion animation and miniature worlds. Designed by Tom Lee, with concept artwork by his daughter, fellow artist, Solvej Lee. Join us for this live-streamed performance event followed by an Q&A with the Tom following the show.
About Tom: Tom Lee is a puppet artist, designer and director from Hawai’i. His work explores Asian puppetry forms, miniatures and performing objects in dialogue with the language of film and animation. His collaboration with Japanese master puppeteer Koryu Nishikawa V, Shank’s Mare, has toured the U.S., Japan and France. Mr. Lee was a puppeteer in the original Broadway cast of War Horse and has performed with the Metropolitan Opera (Madama Butterfly), Lyric Opera of Chicago (Queen of Spades), Dan Hurlin (Hiroshima Maiden, Disfarmer, Demolishing Everything with Amazing Speed). He designed puppetry for the adaptation of Haruki Murakami’s Wind Up Bird Chronicle and is co-director of the Chicago Puppet Studio (2019 Jeff Award for puppetry design).
More at www.tomleeprojects.comAnd to find out more about internationally renowned artist, Tom Lee, listen to our interview with Tom on The Puppet Pod! here.Or Listen on Spotify here. This is a can’t miss performance to kick-start your 2021! Hope to see you at Eden on 1/22 or 1/23!