ONE EYE GONE
CALARTS
The Godzilla story re-imagined with an eco-consciousness, by playwright Erik Ehn and experimental puppeteer Katie Shook, in it's 6th season on the fringe.
Los
Angeles/Edinburgh - CalArts Festival Theater presents the world premier
of Erik Ehn and Katie Shook's ONE EYE GONE at Venue 13 for the 2009
Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
In ONE EYE GONE playwright Erik Ehn and puppeteer Katie Shook adapt
the original 1954 Japanese Godzilla film to tell a story of characters
facing the threat of annihilation by a post-atomic monster. Four doll-sized
puppet heroes, designed by Ms. Shook, struggle to understand and resist
a man-sized monster in a story that is also an allegory for society's
fears about unpredictable changes in both our environment and in our
own psyches. The physical production aspires to be environmentally sustainable
by using recycled and "green" materials. Lighting, sound and
video elements are performer activated. Puppeteers manipulate cameras
and objects to open and transform the ordinary into a landscape that
is hallucinatory and strange
Erik Ehn is the head of playwriting at Brown University in Providence,
Rhode Island. Until recently Ehn was the Dean of the CalArts School
of 
Theater.
He collaborated with Janie Geiser, experimental filmmaker and puppeteer
and the Director of the Cotsen Center for Puppetry and the Arts, on
William Wilson: Invisible Glass, and Frankenstein: Mortal Toys. Other
recent plays of his include Maria Kizito and The Saint Plays .
Katie Shook is a Los Angeles-based puppet artist. She has performed at The Manual Archives, the Santa Monica Museum of Art, the New York Toy Theater Festival, the Los Angeles Toy Theater Festival and with the Little Fakers. With a background in both movement and fine art, Ms. Shook blends the mundane, irreverent and sublime in performance with puppets, found objects and invented worlds. ??
CalArts Festival Theater has partnered with Venue 13 for 6 seasons to expand programming to include the experimental work of the students and recent alumni of the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, California, USA, 35 miles north of Los Angeles.
For more information visit www.calartsatvenue13.com
Puppeteers
Chelsea Didier
Whitney Rodriguez
Eddie Rowley
Danrae Wilson
Cast
Sam Breen -Monster
Joss Glennie-Smith -Narrator
Jenny Greer -Narrator
Contact:
Ian Garrett - Producer, CalArts Festival Theater
0784 744 0641 - ian@toasterlab.com
Jon Gottlieb - Director, CalArts Festival Theater
0780 488 9484 - jonsound@aol.com
Ticket prices: £8 General - £5 Concession
One Eye Gone @ Venue 13
8th - 22th August. 14.45pm.
(nb. NO SHOW MONDAY 17TH AUG) £8 (£5 Cons)
To book tickets call Venue13 Box Office on 07074 20 13 13 (Only open throughout August - 10.00 am - 10.30pm) or click the link below.
