Wood, Stone, Fire, and Bone (Paperhand Puppet Intervention, 7 p.m. Aug. 20-22 and 27-29 and Sept. 3-5 and 10-12 in the Forest Theater, at the corner of Country Club Dr. and Boundary St., on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) is another politically charged puppet show created by Donovan Zimmerman and Jan Burger and staged in the beautiful stone amphitheater across from the Paul Green Theatre. “In this fantastical giant puppet pageant,” according to the group’s web site, “Elemental Beings move and dance through vast ages of time changing and affecting the earth and its amazing creatures. A living landscape moves and breathes as stones and trees are placed by their elemental icon. Within this magical world a myriad of beasts and plants come to life including tall stilted beasts, marionette phoenix and flowers, and a huge white heron with a 30 ft. wingspan. The element of Fire is born to Air and Wood under a waxing moon and grows to maturity, then, inevitably becomes attracted to the element of Water. Come see for yourself how the story unfolds. The performance is set to Live Music and uses many different types of puppetry styles including giant puppets, stilts, masks, marionettes, and shadows.” For more information, visit http://www.paperhand.org/. Tickets will be sold at the door.
About The Author
Robert McDowell
Robert W. McDowell is a Raleigh, NC, freelance writer, editor, and theater critic who served as CVNC's theatre editor from September 2002 to May 2010. Since 1973, the Columbia, SC, native and 1970 graduate of East Carolina University in Greenville, NC, has written theater, book, and music previews and reviews for the Raleigh News & Observer, The Raleigh Times, North Carolina Magazine of Raleigh, and Spectator Magazine of Raleigh. In April 2001, Robert McDowell established Robert's Reviews, an e-mail theatrical newsletter, to help fill a growing void in Triangle theater coverage. Triangle Theater Review is an expanded version of the original newsletter, circulated by e-mail. He also co-edited and supervised the production of Jim Valvano's Guide to Great Eating (JTV Enterprises, 1984), a 224-page celebrity cookbook; and he served as a fact checker for Valvano: They Gave Me a Lifetime Contract, and Then They Declared Me Dead (Pocket Books, 1991).