Macabre puppetry
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Published: January 2, 2009
HANOVER, N.H. – In a delightfully macabre performance, New York-based artist Erik Sanko brings "The Fortune Teller" on Friday, Jan. 9, at 7 pm and 9 p.m., and on Saturday, Jan. 10, at 2 and 7 p.m., in the Moore Theater at the Hopkins Center for the Arts. (The Saturday 2 p.m. show was added due to high demand for tickets.) Audiences sit on the stage itself — the better to experience at close range this spine-tingling marionette show. A gleefully ghoulish morality fable for grown-ups, it features Sanko's marvelously creepy handcrafted puppets and set that comes alive before the audience's eyes — as well as a score written by Sanko, who plays bass. Writes Backstage, "The craftsmanship of the entire production astounds … (a) grandly satisfying piece of theater in miniature." Audiences are also invited to join Phantom Limb for a free behind-the-scenes look at the making of "The Fortune Teller," a tour of the "transformation mansion" set, marionette demonstration by Sanko and discussion with the artistic directors on Saturday, Jan. 10, at 4:30 p.m. in The Moore Theater.
Tickets are $26; call the Hopkins Center Box Office, (603) 646-2422, or go online to hop.dartmouth.edu.
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