My review of the The Pigeoning for nytheater now at the ever wild and wondorous HERE theater. The show runs December 3-21, 2013. Go see it! Frank is your spirit animal, and mine.

I heard a story on the radio recently about a man who couldn’t spontaneously control his limbs. Every time he wanted to move, he had to carefully imagine the movement he wanted in his mind, and force his limbs to recreate it. This is the enormous task of bunkaru-style puppetry in Robin Frohardt’s weird and wonderful The Pigeoning. This meticulously-realized multimedia production, featuring puppetry, video and live music, follows Frank, an obsessive-compulsive office worker in the early 80s, as he comes face-to-face with the chaos that can erupt from trying to build a perfectly ordered world. Continue reading “On The Pigeoning: Puppet Theater is the Best Kind of Theater” →