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Oct 11 (Fri): 8:00 pm
Oct 12 (Sat): 8:00 pm
About the Show
The Spinner reimagines the Fates from Greek mythology as ungodly factory wardens who’ve outsourced their cruel work to mortal garment workers in a 19th-century textile mill. Told through a mixture of overhead projector shadow puppetry and shadow masks, and featuring an original folk music score by Jared Engel, The Spinner unstitches the lengths we will go to make our fates our own.
The Spinner is paired with Eudora and the Blackest Crow , an original short shadow puppetry play about a young girl, a coal mine, a sinister long-lost relation, and a murder of crows, set in a not-so-bygone era of Appalachian grit.
Recommended for adults and teens 13+
Overhead projector shadow puppetry and masks
Length: 45 minutes
Language: English
From New York!
You can also join Foreshadow for a shadow puppetry and mask-making workshop on October 12!
Co-Created by Gaby FeBland and Rosalind Lilly
Performed by Gaby FeBland, Leah Levine, and Rosalind Lilly
Music Composed by Jared Engel
"The Spinner" was made possible thanks to a 2024 Workshop Grant from The Jim Henson Foundation, and additional support from the Peg Santvoord Foundation and the Puppetry at the Carriage House (PATCH) Residency.
About the Artist
Foreshadow is an award-winning experimental shadow puppetry company whose macabre original plays evoke the timeless mystery of a story told around a campfire. Co-founded by Gaby FeBland and Rosalind Lilly, two puppeteers who have been making theatre together since middle school, Foreshadow has performed at the Carnegie Hall Weimar Festival, Green-Wood Cemetery, Dixon Place, Brick Aux, The Owl Music Parlor, Duane Park, and the Coney Island Mermaid Parade. They are thrilled to be sharing their work with The Puppet Showplace Theater community for the very first time.
Gaby FeBland is a playwright, performer, and illustrator from Brooklyn, NY. Her plays have been produced off-Broadway through the Araca Project, at Northwestern University, and at the Frontier Theater in Chicago, and her writing has been published in McSweeney’s and Spider Magazine. She’s puppeteered on TV for Green Screen Adventures, in commercials for UiPath, and onstage at the National Puppetry Conference at the Eugene O’Neill Center, the La MaMa Puppet Festival, and with Bread and Puppet at Theater for the New City. She is currently an artist-in-residence at Culture Lab LIC, where she’s developing a new full-length play.
Rosalind Lilly is a puppetry artist and actor from Brooklyn, NY, who is now based in the Hudson Valley. She studied acting at Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University and at Shakespeare’s Globe Theater in London. She has performed as a puppeteer at venues such as Three’s Brewing, Ziegfeld’s Midnight Frolic, the Asheville Fringe Festival, and with Mabou Mines at the Wuzhen International Theatre Festival in China. Favorite acting roles include Inherit the Wind at the Arts Center of Coastal Carolina, and Law and Order: SVU. She teaches puppetry and theatre to students throughout New York state.
Leah Levine is an artist and educator based in Brooklyn, New York. She has experience teaching drawing, painting, portfolio development, set design, and puppetry. Her personal artwork tends to be narrative, focusing on physicality and the unconscious. Leah’s work has been featured at the La Mama Puppet Slam, the Object Movement Festival, the WADE Pride Festival, as well as in film and TV. Leah holds a BA in Psychology and Studio Art from Wesleyan University.
