Sandglass Theater opens its New Visions Summer Series with The City That Slept, an imaginative puppetry performance by Tom Tuke, on June 5 and 6 at 7pm. The production blends shadow puppetry, lantern puppets, and large-scale marionettes with sound recordings collected in New York City’s Union Square. The performance also features an original technique developed by Tuke: floating shadow puppets that glide across a pool of moving water, creating luminous images of motion and reflection.
Originally from Aotearoa/New Zealand, Tuke studied at the University of Connecticut’s Puppet Arts Program and has performed with Bread and Puppet Theater.
Tom tuke will also host a hands-on Floating Water Puppets workshop on June 6 from 11am–12:30pm, where participants will create their own floating shadow puppets and experiment with the water-shadow technique used in the show.
Tickets are $20 for the show and $40 for the workshop; no one turned away for lack of funds.
