A collaborative work by Ping Chong, Jon Ludwig, and Mitsuru Ishii, produced by the Center for Puppetry Arts (Atlanta) with Ping Chong and Co. (New York). Presented in Association with The Jim Henson Festival of Puppet Theatre.
Tuesday, October 13 at 8 pm
MAIN STAGE
Tickets: $26.00
Kwaidan brings together the talents of the conceptual artist/director Ping Chong, puppeteer Jon Ludwig, and designer Mitsuru Ishii with turn-of-the-century writer Lafcadio Hearn, whose exquisite translations of Japanese ghost stories inspired this collaboration. The purity, simplicity, and poetry of these tales evoke a bequiled world, far removed from our pragmatic one. Layered imagery and dazzling puppetry conjure up scenes of mystery, enchantment, and macabre fun, as crabs with human faces haunt turbulent shores, dead lovers appear in a McDonald's, a blind minstrel performs before assembled ghosts, and demons call to finish business.
For ages 12 and up.
