.jpg)
Midsummer Night at the Forbidden Cabaret
Celebrate
the start of Summer with a Mythical, Mystical Puppet Cabaret and
Solstice Celebration!
Selected Offerings: - -
"Midsummer Night's Memoir" by King
Oberon and Queen Titania (excerpted with permission of the
authors), Miguel Cervante's "Orlando
Furioso and the Ogre of Ostia," with
lecture/demo by M.W. Nelson, Professor Expectorus,
"Summer Harvest Dream," a tale of
Pucking fairies, "Folsom Prison
Blues," "Summertime," and
much more!
Saturnday Eve, June 22. Doors open at 7:00 for PreShow, ancient (and modern) fermented beverages, viands- At the Fetterly Playhouse, Vallejo (map and details below)
Show starts at 8:00 followed by After Party: more food, drink
Costumes are always welcome (this Cabaret's theme: Fairies? Shakespeare? Druids? Classical story book characters? Nature spirits? Whatever you think of!
Performers (subject to changes and surprises): -- Independent Eye, Basil Twist, One Flea Circus, Whorls of Wonder Puppet Theatre, Magical Moonshine Theatre, Little Blue Moon Theatre, Bernie Beauchamp Puppets, Obtainium Works, Music by Musical Instrument Inventor Bart Hopkin, Peter Whitehead, and more!
Below: Check out our line up of exceptional talent!
Independent
Eye - The Independent
Eye is a professional theatre founded by Conrad Bishop and
Elizabeth Fuller in 1974, now based in Sebastopol, CA. In 33
years, they’ve presented 3000+ performances in 35 states
& Canada & Israel, as well as public radio series. They
act, write, compose, direct, design and do the dirty work. They
also write plays for and do collaborations with other theatres.
Their phenomenal acting and puppetry skills have blown away
audiences at past Forbidden Puppet Cabarets.
Mary Nagler,
Whorls of Wonder Puppets - For nearly forty years Mary has been a
performing artist. She has toured with Ringling Bros. and Barnum
and Bailey Circus as one of their first Clown College trained
female clowns. Puppetry was part of her comic performance with
the Circus. In addition to her work as a performer, Mary is an
experienced puppet builder and designer. She has worked on myriad
puppet styles including the marionettes used in the film
"Being John Malkovich,"and has built Muppets (such as
crowd favorite Beaker) and puppets for the musical Avenue Q .
Bart Hopkin -
Musician, instrument designer, author - Over the years Bart has been active in many
facets of music-making including performance and recording,
composition and arrangement, instrument making, music education,
theater music, and ethnomusicological research. Bart published
Experimental Musical Instruments (EMI). Since 1994, he has
written several books on instruments and their construction,
including the widely used manual Musical Instrument Design.. He
has also produced CDs featuring the work of innovative instrument
makers worldwide, including the unexpectedly popular collection, Gravikords,
Whirlies & Pyrophones. Bart will play music on a variety of
unique instruments during lulls in the action as well as
composing music for the Fairy Dances!
Basil Twist - Joining us from NY, world renowned
Basil Twist is a puppeteers puppeteer. The New Yorker has
said about Basil, "No theatre artist in New York is showing
more poetic force or technical skill than the puppeteer Basil
Twist." Basil Twist has garnered an international
reputation as an audacious designer, director and performer.
He creates iconic, visionary puppetry worlds with a
remarkable range of style and scope appearing in intimate
nightclubs to large orchestra halls.
Little Blue Moon
Theatre Little
Blue Moon's repertoire was inspired by a chance meeting between
two loving puppeteers and an aphrodisiac maker, resulting in two
exciting and popular seasons of underground theatre at Wild Swan
Aphrodisiac Factory in Napa, California. Today Little Blue Moon's
award winning, short, humorous theatre pieces with themes of sex,
romance and adventure are a festival favorite in Europe and have
excited and delighted audiences coast to coast in the U.S.
Obtainium Works -
Obtainium Works is the home base of the Hibernian Academy of
UnNatural Sciences, based in Vallejo, California. Recently
relocated from The Shipyard in Berkeley, it is an on-going Do It
Yourself (DIY) group of tinkerers, gearheads, and steam bohemians
who fabricate steam-powered art out of repurposed industrial
detritus. We are loosely based on the works of Jules Verne, H.G.
Wells, and other Victorian-era writers who created an imaginary
world where steam technology was considered cutting edge and
brave explorers could be propelled by gun powder to the moon! Obtainium Works
Genius Inventor Shannon O'Hare will play a starring role in one
of the skits, along with a wonderful piece of machinery!
Bernie
Beauchamp Puppets In
business since 2000, Bernie
Beauchamp of Reno, Nevada
has developed Beaupromo from a one puppet riverside novelty act
into a polished gem of Marionette magic representing the high
standards of professional puppet touring companies around the
world. Bernie's dancing fire marionettes have been a Forbidden
Puppet Cabaret favorite in the past.
Peter Whitehead - Musician, composer, instrument inventor -
Peter Whitehead is an instrument builder, performer, songwriter,
composer and writer. His instruments are often based on folk
instruments from around the world, and feature unusual or found
materials in place of traditional ones. He performs his own solo
work using these instruments and is a member of Closer To Carbon,
a trio featuring bass, cellos, spike fiddles, sampler,
percussion, toys and an array of conventional, invented &
found instruments. He was a founder-member of the critically
acclaimed Mobius Operandi performance group, known for its
spectacular large-scale multi-media events. His film scores
include City of Ghosts (Matt Dillon '02), 24 Girls & China
Diary (Eva Brzeski '97 & '02), Fortune Tell (Robert Strauss
'95), Shift (Maxine Moerman '97) and the theme music for the San
Francisco International Film Festival ('97).
Allison
Daniel, One Flea Circus - Allison is a physical performer with a rich
background of training in Puppetry, Mime, Clown, Mask and
Acrobatics. She is a graduate of the Flying Actors Conservatory
program, as well as Sandglass Puppetry manipulation intensive and
a current student of the Clown Conservatory program at Circus
Center in San Francisco. Upon moving to the San Francisco bay
area, she has been focusing more on creating original ensemble
and solo work, with a world of possibilities and ideas to mix and
match into a unique world of joy, insanity, and unique
perspectives.
Karima
Cammell, Castles in the Air - Karima Cammell is an author, painter and book
publisher in Berkeley, California. In 2001, Karima opened Castle
in the Air, a celebrated shop, studio, classroom, and gallery
which recognizes the internal life of the artist and all those
who dare to live their dreams. Her books have won several awards
including an IPPY and most recently a Gold Medal Moonbeam
Children's Book Spirit Award for Imagination. Karima will lead our
make a flower fairy audience participation art project!
Magical
Moonshine Theatre - Founded in 1979 by Michael and Valerie
Nelson, Magical Moonshine Theatre (MMT) performances have been
seen coast to coast in the U.S., as well as internationally with
performances over 15 countries in 8 different languages. Michael studied puppetry at the International
Puppetry Institute with the late Jim Henson of the Muppets.
Additionally, Nelson has taught puppet theatre arts at the Napa
Valley College; was a California Arts Council Artist in
Residency; has been a regular writer for the national journal of
puppetry; is a past president of the San Francisco Bay Area
Puppetry Guild; and is a past-President of UNIMA-USA. Valerie, in
addition to being co founder of MMT is past faculty member of
Tennessee Arts Academy, past workshop director of the National
Puppetry Festival, and currently, along with Michael, is a
California Arts Council Artist in the Schools.
Fetterly Playhouse, Vallejo (Fetterly virgins, look below for map)
Live music. Unheard of Arts.
Creative Fellowship.
Join
us.
Follow Forbidden Puppet Cabaret on Facebook
Note: We are trying something new on the on-line ticket service...various ticket prices ($15, 20, 25, etc.) with GENERAL SEATING. A $25.00 ticket means more for the (starving) artists. Pay what you can afford. All proceeds go to support the event and, after expenses, are divided among the performers. Go to ticket website to secure your place and support these artists.
Funding for this event has been made possible
in part by the Puppet Slam Network - www.puppetslam.com
For more info or to
submit your own act for consideration: magicalmoonshine@gmail.com
Visit this page again for more details. Or join the SF Bay Area Slam Network on Facebook, or email (address above) to request to join the Bay Area Puppet Slam Yahoo Group! Keep informed!
Print Friendly Version of Map Below
