Show Description:
This show re-creates the atmosphere of 19th-century Atlantic piracy through shadow puppets, manipulated objects, and the sounds of the audience. Follow Sue as she drowns in pursuit of Billy the Pyrate and then resurfaces as an island in the sea. Track Billy as he jumps ship to avoid love and washes ashore a strange island pocked with treacherous holes where he finds unexpected treasure!
Performer Bio:
Janaki Ranpura has been staging puppet pieces since graduating from Yale University in 1998. The current series combines physical theater dynamics as developed in Paris by Jacques Lecoq with shadow play based on Larry Reed's reinvention of Balinese wayang kulit. The pieces explore new relationships between shadow screen, audience, and actor.
J-J Trinket’s Double-Jointed Festival Series is her production company.
It’s fit you should know how Bill the Pyrate was chas’d crost the High seas by the crafty spinster Sue, how She gaoled him in the narrow bedchamber of her Heart & loosed on him the mad Aloneness of her Sex.
b & w photos by Derek Chung; color images by Jay Jao
