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Performing Arts CULTURAL INDUSTRY'S SHOCKHEADED PETER WEDNESDAY-SUNDAY, MAY 3-7, 2000, WEDNESDAY-FRIDAY, 8 PM; SATURDAY, 2 AND 8 PM; SUNDAY, 7 PM OPENING-NIGHT PERFORMANCE: $24 ($12 WALKER AND JEUNE LUNE MEMBERS) THURSDAY-SUNDAY: $24 ($19 WALKER AND JEUNE LUNE MEMBERS) THEATRE DE LA JEUNE LUNE, 105 NORTH FIRST STREET, MINNEAPOLIS TICKETS: 612.375.7622 |
"One of the must-sees of the decade."--The Guardian
(U.K.)
One of the most bizarre and wildly entertaining music-theater works ever
to leap off the London stage, Shockheaded Peter is based on the macabre
1844 children's tales by Heinrich Hoffman. The collective nightmare of Julian
Crouch and Phelim McDermott (cofounders of London's Improbable Theater),
Shockheaded Peter features the underworld's favorite cabaret act,
The Tiger Lillies, whose accordion-based
sound is anchored by Martyn Jacques' compositions and beautifully eerie
falsetto. Set in a stunning, two-story toy-theater stage and employing live
animation and inventive, large-scale puppets, Shockheaded Peter is
an uproarious send-up of Victorian theatrical mannerisms and illusion--a
music box spinning out of control, an advent calendar with a different lunatic
waiting behind every door. So sweet, so sinister--a black comedy for sophisticated
children, their dreadful parents, and anyone who has ever sucked their thumb.
For more information and to view video clips online, visit the Web site
at www.shockheadedpeter.com. Copresented with Theatre de la Jeune Lune. Note: Performance may be too shockheaded for children under age 10.
SHOCKHEADED PETER IS A CULTURAL INDUSTRY PROJECT
PRODUCED IN COLLABORATION WITH WEST YORKSHIRE PLAYHOUSE AND LYRIC THEATRE
HAMMERSMITH. THE PRODUCTION WAS ORIGINALLY SUPPORTED BY BARCLAYS STAGE PARTNERS
IN COLLABORATION WITH THE ARTS COUNCIL OF ENGLAND. THE MINNEAPOLIS PRESENTATION
IS SUPPORTED IN PART WITH FUNDS FROM THE BRITISH COUNCIL.