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Teatro Gioco Vita brings back its shadow-and-actor circus piece for the Piccole Platee series, with morning school performances and a Friday evening family show.
The museum's Shadow Puppet Theatre series presents Eric Carle's The Very Hungry Caterpillar as an animated shadow-story program for young children.
Manual Cinema tours its live cinematic Macbeth adaptation combining shadow puppetry, miniatures, acting, and a cinematic soundscape.
Drew Colby brings hand shadowgraphy to A Day By The Sea at the Royal Hippodrome Theatre.
The museum's Shadow Puppet Theatre series presents Dow Phumiruk's Mela and the Elephant as an animated shadow-story program for young children.
Reykjavik Arts Festival presents Ingoma Nshya's story with drum, dance, song, and live shadow puppetry by Kristine White Katese Aurore.
Tom Lee performs and designs a solo adaptation of Stanislaw Lem's EDEN using shadow screens, moving panoramas, stop-motion animation, and miniature worlds.
Darebin Arts Speakeasy presents a contemporary Southeast Asian ghost story told through shadow puppetry inspired by Malaysian wayang kulit, live music, and dance.
Ash Winkfield's Water Walker explores the Igbo Landing of 1803 through object movement, tabletop puppetry, shadow puppetry, set design, and original music.
Drew Colby presents Mr. Shadow, a family hand-shadow show built from shadowgraphy, vintage routines, and playful audience participation.
The East Lyme Puppetry Committee hosts Sova Theater's musical performance combining live music, dance, and shadow puppetry.
Drew Colby brings My Shadow and Me to Firobi Festival Titelles, using hand shadows and shadowgraphy to build a comic visual world.
Wisconsin Union Theater presents Manual Cinema's shadow-puppet retelling of Frankenstein, combining handmade shadow puppetry, live music, cinematic technique, and projected visuals.