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Toy Box Sets
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45-minute version performed for the Celebrate Erie citywide event the Erie Art Museum Annex, August 19, 2005
Evening-length production performed at the Erie Art Museum Annex, May 20-21, 2005 and
The D.C. Arts Center, Washington D.C., February 18-19, 2005
An evening-length collaborative performance between Shen & Bones Performance Group, Joseph Allen Popp's Weirdo Theatre Quartet, and Karen Dodson's Windy Vestibule Productions
The collaborators created an eclectic blend of live music, movement, and visuals that offered audiences an unusually rich and thought-provoking theatrical experience, and methodically blowing their minds to boot. The work was originally staged at the Washington D.C. Art Center's Black Box Theatre to sold out audiences, and was reviewed by John Edwards in the 2005 April-May issue of ARTEFAKT, the Regional Arts and Entertainment Magazine.
Incorporating pulsing toy boxes filled with a wild array of ancient tools, fetish-beings, and frantic mechanical devices, the mood of the performance ranges from humorous to somber, mixing set pieces with full-bore improvisation. The magnificent hyper-Photoshopped set includes several massive visually impairing panels and a 16-foot-wide framing "curtain" area-- all adorned with swarming birds, herds of moleskins, gently flaming hands, angry deities, exploding architectural details and huge outcroppings of lettuce coral. Dodson's digital-image set panels were manufactured by Washington D.C. based IMAGE EVENTS WORLDWIDE, "producer of nationwide themed events, corporate theatre, and flawless national celebrations," (IEW recently staged one of the 2005 Presidential Inaugural Balls).
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