April 2010 PERFORMANCE

Fri & Sat at 8pm / Sun at 7pm
Tickets $15 ($12 online) / $10 Students ($8 online)

Banners & Cranks Silkscreen Posters $10 each or all 5 for $40
Poster Ticket $16 (includes a silkscreen festival poster)
Off the Cuff Weekend Pass $20 (good for the second weekend)
POSTER PASS $30 (good for all three weekends plus a silkscreen festival poster)

Banners & Cranks:
A Festival of Cantastoria

curated by Links Hall Artistic Associate Dave Buchen and Clare Dolan

Three weekends exploring the performance of paintings through song and story.

Don’t miss the Cantastoria exhibit curated by Clare Dolan and Dave Buchen at Packer Schopf Gallery April 16 – May 8.

Weekend One, April 23-25

Fri* & Sat at 8pm / Sun at 7pm
Tickets $15 ($12 online) / $10 Students ($8 online)
*Post show opening night reception

Without the Fluff

featuring Great Small Works, The Dolly Wagglers, Bread and Puppet Theater, Blair Thomas & Company and Clare Dolan

Crank those banners and bring out the brass band, violins, accordion and chorus for some classic cantastoria by NYC-based Great Small Works (“The History of Oil” and “Happy Nourooz”), Wisconsin’s The Dolly Wagglers, Chicago’s Blair Thomas (“St. James Infimary”), Vermont’s Bread and Puppet Theater and Clare Dolan’s “The Further Adventures of Go Go Girl.” Singers in the audience should come early to learn the music and be part of the show!

Weekend Two, April 30-May 2

Fri & Sat at 8pm / Sun at 7pm
Tickets $15 ($12 online) / $10 Students ($8 online)
Get an Off the Cuff Weekend Pass for just $20!

Free if Yer Broke

Off the Cuff

featuring performances by David Isaacson, Diana Slickman, Jenny Magnus, Fred Lonberg Holm, Teria Gartelos and Danny Thompson with scrolls by Tim Portlock, Deborah Hunt, Blair Thomas, Javier Maldonado O’Farrell, Beatriz Santiago and more

Theater Oobleck presents

6X6

Six scrolls created by six artists are interpreted by six performers who have never seen them before through song, storytelling, cello and Foley effects. Each night the audience will see each scroll performed by two different performers. The improvised results will allow the audience to have their cake and eat it too as the performers use the images to crafts stories and music. The audience witnesses the process of interpretation and creation in six pairs.

Weekend Three, May 7 - 9

Fri & Sat at 8pm / Sun at 7pm
Tickets $15 ($12 online) / $10 Students ($8 online)

Brand New Stuff

featuring Shoddy Puppet Company, Ramshackle Enterprises, Susan Simpson, Marsian De Lellis and Meredith Miller

Projections and puppets and roughly cut cardboard – anything goes when stories come off their banners and walk around. The third coast welcomes east coast world premieres by Philadelphia’s Shoddy Puppet Co. and Ramschakle Enterprises and west coast wonders from L.A.: Homesick for the World, Growing Up Linda: Fudgie’s Death Exhibit A and Fables of Flight and Falling.