BABY ZOMBIE!
In our premiere collaboration, The Elephant Tango Ensemble (ETE) joins forces with New Exhibition Room on STORY TIME PRESERVATION HOUR, a one-hour, ALL AGES SHOW debuting at the Boston Playwrights’ Theatre: February 10th-26th (BUY TICKETS HERE)
Fresh off our installation at the Mikhail Zakin Gallery in New Jersey for a Contemporary Puppetry Exhibit (showcasing the best new work in puppetry across America and beyond), ETE is pleased to announce our newest original piece, Baby Zombie!
Inspired by an idea from New Exhibition Room’s Dawn Simmons, Baby Zombie is a hilarious romp through the day in the life of an infant zombie. Utilizing shadow puppetry, hand puppets, slide projection, and live music, Elephant Tango brings their unique combination of music, multimedia puppetry, and a huge dose of fun that both kids and adults will enjoy to the stage. Puppeteer and Co-Director Karin Webb says, “I’m excited about this project because it is our most sophisticated venture yet into general audience puppetry… there really is something for everybody!”
Baby Zombie will feature original puppets and puppeteering by Karin Webb, Lainey SchoolTree and Natasha Sorokin, with music composed and performed by Valerie Thompson & Brendan Burns. Each performance will be a duet between puppeteer and musician. Throughout our three week run, you can see 5 different combinations of performers. Take a look at our schedule:
- Thursday, Feb 10th (8pm): Lainey SchoolTree & Valerie Thompson
- Friday, Feb 11th (8pm): Karin Webb & Brendan Burns
- Saturday, Feb 12th (3pm): Natasha Sorokin & Valerie Thompson
- Saturday, Feb 12th (8pm): Karin Webb & Brendan Burns
- Thursday, Feb 17th (8pm): Lainey SchoolTree & Valerie Thompson
- Friday, Feb 18th (8pm): Natasha Sorokin & Brendan Burns
- Saturday, Feb 19th (3pm): Natasha Sorokin & Valerie Thompson
- Saturday, Feb 19th (8pm): Natasha Sorokin & Brendan Burns
- Thursday, Feb 24th (8pm): Lainey SchoolTree & Brendan Burns
- Friday, Feb 25th (8pm): Karin Webb & Brendan Burns
- Saturday, Feb 26th (3pm): Karin Webb & Brendan Burns
- Saturday, Feb 26th (8pm): Karin Webb & Brendan Burns
We are very excited about this production, and thrilled to be beside New Exhibition Room‘s adaptation of Paper Bag Princess. This is an extremely limited run, so grab your tickets now and guarantee your seat in the theatre. Also, after each each show stick around for our ”sweet talk,” where performers and audience get a chance to mingle over homemade cookies. See you soon!