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Help!  Wendy Windstorm has terrible sneezes!  Grumpy Harry’s poems blew away with her breezes!  Wendy needs your super smarts to conquer alliteration, simile and more in this puppet adventure straight from Urban Stages’ library tour. 

*Warning: spontaneous rhyming may occur…

In a distopian world where all is the same, twelve-year-old Jonas is selected to become the receiver of memories in his community. As Jonas goes through his training, the buried truth about the world that he was born into becomes hauntingly clear.  

This adaptation of Lois Lowry's classic young adult novel is a one-person performance accompanied by discussion with a YANY teaching artist.  This production tours in NYC as well as nationally and in Canada. 

 "What we saw today was one of the single most impressive acting performances I've ever witnessed, and I'm super grateful I was able to see it." - Cathy Harmon, Middle School Teacher

"The production was incredible!  The set was a stool and a sitting box, and the characters were all played by one woman.  One woman!  To say it was a masterpiece would be an understatement.  Wow!!"    - Brian Hartman, Middle School Teacher

"Ms. Parker gave a riveting performance!  Students and staff were in on-going conversation about the production since Monday." - Alison Bassell, High School Assistant Principal

Double Image Theater Lab, founded by Spica Wobbe and Margot Fitzsimmons, creates cross-cultural productions that span across many art forms, such as; poetry, multimedia, music, dance and puppetry. 

I Laid an Egg is an imaginative journey for 2-6 year olds.  Spica and Margot have performed with this piece in the United States as well as in Holland and Austria.  Liz joined the cast in 2014, beginning with a performance at Bethel Woods Center for the Arts.

When Lucy's parents announce that the family needs to move, Lucy is devastated that she will no longer live near her best friend.  Determined to use her love of Science to find a solution to this frightening change, Lucy turns to her magic lab coat. With her coat and a little imagination, Lucy travels into the earth where she talks to a frightened Magma in the moments before he explodes into a volcano.  She journeys to the bottom of the sea where she discusses evolution with an anglerfish and, finally, out into space where she discovers that humans exist only because stars die.  As Lucy peers into the vast unknown, she is forced to grapple with the necessity of change and the importance of Science even when it doesn't have all the answers.

In this seasonal celebration, two eager snow-sprites-in-training must accomplish a list of tasks in order to receive their official snow sprite certification.  Through clowning, mask and abundant energy, these sprites bring life to winter folk tales from Scandinavia and Japan and involve the audience in a hilarious and poignant celebration of snow.

South of the Border features creative adaptations of favorite Latin American folktales including: Cuy and Zorro, Miro, The Goat, and The Bird of a Thousand Colors.

In the year 2045, a medical advancement is found that will cure patients suffering from D Siege (formerly known as depression).  Lucas Morning is notified that he is scheduled for surgery in 24 hours.  If he fails to comply, he will receive no further health care and will never have this option again.  After a decade of depression, Lucas isn't sure who he will be without his disease.  Given one night to grapple with this immense choice, he calls forth the creatures that have haunted him and kept him company throughout his adult life.   Will he turn his back on these demons or will they convince him of his fate?  

Running time: 35min 

A Chance Shadow is a poetic play inspired by the Chinese poet Xu Zhimo (1897~1931) and the Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca (1898~1936). Xu was one of the first Chinese writers to successfully naturalize Western romantic forms into modern Chinese poetry and Lorca was a social activist who changed the world around him though his unique style of surrealism and theatricality. With their passion for literature, social reform and true love, they changed society. By using the elements of pop-up arts, Shadow Theater, Toy Theater and poetry, the show brings the audience into the poets’ romantic and historical worlds.

This show has appeared at International Poppentheater Festival Dordrecht, Holland (2010), New York Voice 4 Vision Puppet Festival(2009, 2011), International Festival of Puppet Theater Jerusalem, Israel (2011), The BRIDGE Progressive Arts Initiative Charlottesville, VA (2011), Puppetry at the Carriage House, New York (2012), and Close To You Puppet Festival Taipei, Taiwan (2012), Dixon Place Puppet Blok, New York (2011, 2013) and the Sandglass Theater New Visions Series, Vermont (2014)   

For more information, please visit: http://www.doubleimagetheaterlab.com/