Performance Dates
Wednesday, May 22: 7pm
Thursday, May 23: 7pm
Friday, May 24: 7pm
Saturday, May 25: 12pm, 7pm
Sunday, May 26: 12pm
Performance Length
90 Minutes total. A short opening act featuring a guest artist will be presented at the top of the program, followed by a 10 minute break. Invisible Cities runs 55 minutes.
About the Performance
Invisible Cities is a conversation between Kublai Khan and his emissary Marco Polo. Even as the Khan feels his empire eroding beneath him, Marco Polo forms the slipping sands into the cities of the emperor's dreams.
Recently featured at the Chicago International Puppet Festival, this toy theater adaptation of Italo Calvino's renowned novel compresses 19 cities into a menagerie of objects that articulate the narrative, using a variety of mediums including puppetry, object theater, paper mechanics and living sculpture. www.toy-atlas.com
“In Invisible Cities, the intricacy of the objects tells the story” - Irene Hsiao, Reader Reporter of Chicago
“a tour de force of ingenuity, encapsulated in miniature… tiny portraits evoking longing with an elusive, unaccountable sense of recognition.” - Tracy Davis, Historiographer of Performance
“An incredible distillation of the novel.” - Dylan Zavango, Librarian of Deerfield