Hot on the heels of the 5th Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival, its largest and most successful ever, the Chicago Puppet Fest is pulling strings again this spring, dangling two delightful opportunities for Chicago audiences to enjoy the art and craft of contemporary puppetry.
It’s a Wednesday night at the Studebaker Theater, and 70 minutes into Moby Dick, an immense white whale painted on a screen slowly covers a dark stage. The whale seems completely still until you notice the subtle blinking of its monstrous eye accompanied by the flapping of a pectoral flipper. On January 18, French-Norwegian puppet.
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The Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival, which runs through Jan. 29, will unquestionably change your conception on how puppets can be used in staged productions.