"Deathscape" November 10, 2011

Thurs-Sat@ 8:00 PM, Sundays at 3:00 PM. (No shows 11/24-25)

"Deathscape" by Misha Shulman is a multi-media, puppet-centered, Kafka-meets-Cocteau-in-A-Yellow-Submarine play about dreams where life changes and fears meet. It is inspired by Shulman's own dreams, Jungian imagery and the biblical story of Jacob.

Performed by two actors and four puppeteers, the play will include a combination of Indonesian-style shadow work, live overhead projector artwork and three-dimensional puppets. Directed by the author, with puppets created by Jane Catherine Shaw, Zvi Sahar, Andrew Benincasa, Katey Parker and Alexa Elmakki.

The play was developed during Shulman's period as Writer in Residence for Toronto's multi-award-winning Crow's Theatre. In straightforward prose, Shulman took five powerful dreams he had during a "wild year" in which his life changed radically, and strung them together as a single narrative. In an attempt to touch upon what Carl Jung termed the Collective Unconscious, Shulman then changed the characters of the dreams from people in his own life to archetypical icons such as Sigmund Freud, Osama Bin Laden, Mary Magdalene and the Dalai Lama.