Squirrel Stole My Underpants Creator Performs for Adults
by Guest Blogger: Bonnie Duncan, (They Gotta Be Secret Agents)
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| Bonnie Duncan and Tim Gallagher in "Poste Restante" |
Poste
Restante: A madly
inventive mix of acrobatics, paper, laughter, dance, flight, puppetry, longing,
and film…all stuffed neatly into a box.
Before
creating "Squirrel Stole My Underpants" at Puppet Showplace, I focused my
performing work on adult audiences. "Poste Restante", a piece I made with my dance partner Tim Gallagher, is
returning to Boston Feb 20-23rd at Charlestown Working Theater.
Beyond being a lovely piece of theater, here are the...
Top 5 Reasons you should go see Poste Restante:
1.
If the child in you enjoyed Squirrel
Stole My Underpants, the adult in you will be charmed, wowed, and touched
by Poste Restante. It’s the perfect date-night piece of
theater. Or, bring the kids to our
Sunday, Feb 23rd show at 2:00 pm---it’s family-friendly!
2.
You can have it all: Soulful
Acrobatics! Cheeky Theatre! Refreshing Dance, Puppetry, & Film! Tim Gallagher and I perform a brilliantly
imaginative form of physical theater, effortlessly moving back and forth
between acrobatics, puppetry and dance. Our poetically beautiful, absurdly
logical show is by turns funny, dazzling, and, in the end, surprisingly
poignant.
3.
Poste
Restante brings communication down from
a high-tech, instant, "now,now, now" process to a more tangible,
visceral level where letters and boxes travel through real space and time, and
survive countless potential mishaps along the way. “The
charming performance piece is a love letter to the deep human need we have to
connect and the terrible trouble we have in succeeding.” – Culture Map Austin
4. We perform under the name “They Gotta BeSecret Agents” which is apt, considering how we usually spend our daily
lives: I am the mother of 3 kids under
the age of 5, living in Jamaica Plain; Tim is finishing up medical school in
New York City and will begin a 4 year residency in Emergency Medicine in
June. We created and currently rehearse
this show on the weekends, traveling between cities, mailing various items and
ideas through the mail.
5. This show won “Best Touring Show” (Austin
Critic’s Table), “Best of the Fringe” & “Best Physical Comedy” (San
Francisco Fringe). It’s received
standing ovations from audiences across the US and Europe. The Prague
Post called Poste Restante "Inspired
choreography that is so stark and evocative... this crowd pleaser is not to be
missed.” It was developed with support
from the Jim Henson Foundation, Puppeteers of America Endowment grant,
Cambridge Arts Council, and the Mass Cultural Council.
See you
and your friends there!
- Bonnie
MORE
INFORMATION: http://www.the-secret-agents.com
