The Continuing Appeal of THE ODYSSEY

Marynell found this incredible story in the New York Times about a group of puppeteers preparing to mount their newest event "Odysseus at Hell Gate". The traveling audience are the war weary Greeks walking through streets lined with creatures inspired by Homer's classic. The puppet makers are Alex Kahn and Sophia Michahelles.

Here's the link to the article.

Small Crimson Parasol

Meat & Potato Theatre recently assisted the Calvin Smith Elementary Drama Club by building a handful of set pieces for their production of folk tales entitled TWO FOR THE SHOW: HEGGITY PEG & SMALL CRIMSON PARASOL. The latter is a retelling of "Little Red Riding Hood", but set in Japan rather than the Bavarian woods.

The Calvin Smith Drama Club is directed by Kathleen Atkinson, a M&P board member. The fight and dance choreography for the shows were directed by Enid Atkinson, former associate producer of M&P.

Here Small Crimson Parasol meets grandmother who looks a little under the weather...



Here Heggity Peg arrives at the children's house, looking through the window we built.



Here is the bamboo screen we built for the story set in Japan. The unit rotated to represent the Heggity Peg woods on the other side.