CMU School of Drama


Wednesday, January 13, 2016

The Royal Osiris Karaoke Ensemble Present a Chilling Spin on Puppetry

Flavorwire: “The power of the puppet is undoubtedly surging,” wrote Miriam Gillinson in The Guardian in 2011, noting a theatrical trend that anyone who’d seen anything by Julie Taymore since the ’90s might have anticipated.The renewed popularity of the ancient form of mimicked expression slipped from experimental veneration into the mainstream in the 2000s, with massive productions like Warhorse, Avenue Q and The Lion King, along with that show where you sit and watch Australians folding their foreskins and scrota for an hour, and most recently, Hand to God.

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