10 December 2009: Curiosity

Curtain Theatre, UMass Theatre. Creative director: Miguel Romero. Composer: Eric Sawyer. Puppetry devised by Toby Bercovici et al. (12 persons)

A delightful light-and-puppets show, including moving shadows, puppets, projections, various transformations, and much appropriate music, plus a vocal ensemble and recorded voices, all illustrating the idea or the theme of curiosity. Something over an hour, with no intermission, and exactly the length that this sort of show should be. This is the kind of show that requires immense amounts of rehearsal per minute of performance. It was very well rehearsed and ably performed.