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Hamlet Ride
AboutI left this place to be someone else.And when I am anywhere else, other than here, I get to be myself.I swore that I was never coming back.But here I am. Step right up folx and take a spin on Hamlet Ride, where everyone has an assigned seat and a role to play… as...
Ernie’s Secret Life
AboutErnie’s Secret Life is an episodic odyssey, fusing ever-changing puppetry and stagecraft with humor, music, and a raw understanding of our profound collective reality. Sparked by the isolation and turmoil of our time, Ernie’s Secret Life is a story of discovery...
The Legend of The Waitress & The Robber
AboutThe Legend of The Waitress & The Robber is a Concrete Temple Theatre, Playfactory Mabangzen & Yellowbomb Collaboration, in partnership with Korean Cultural Center NY, developed in residency at Performance Space for the 21st Century/PS21. “Imagine if you...
PACKRAT
AboutSet deep in the Sagebrush Desert, PACKRAT is a visually stunning puppet-forward play that contemplates humanity’s relationship with the natural world. Puppetry, projections and an original score elegantly come together to create many layers of meaning and...
Geppetto: Extraordinary Extremities
AboutGeppetto: Extraordinary Extremities is a tale of resilience, adaptation and ingenuity that tells the story of puppet-maker Geppetto, who is attempting to perform — all by himself for the first time ever — the grand mythical love story of Perseus, who slays a sea...
The Whale
AboutMoby Dick, by Herman Melville tells the tale of Captain Ahab and his maniacal pursuit of the ever-elusive white whale. In Concrete Temple’s The Whale, the often over-looked Sub-Sub-Librarian is featured, and it’s he who plays not only Ishmael and Captain Ahab but...
Past
Remembering Evangeline
About“It’s complicated.” Capturing the drama only love can bring, Concrete Temple Theatre’s world premiere unravels the knotty love story between a man in New England and the woman he left behind in Korea. Original composition, dance and visual theatre fuse in a...
Bird Machine
AboutBird Machine is Concrete Temple Theatre’s multimedia, multi-disciplinary, allegory. A visceral mixture of objects, puppets, shadows and projections creates the environment and landscape of Bird Machine, a play about technology, a contemporary fable that explores...
Hudson to China
AboutSee what can happen in a giant red box! Hudson to China is a toy theatre spectacle that features a combination of projections, puppetry, theatre, and live-music all in a giant red box! An epic “small” show that challenges our perceptions of China, capitalism,...
The Bystander Project
AboutTHE BYSTANDER PROJECT, Concrete Temple Theatre’s stage adaptation of Young Adult author James Preller’s celebrated anti-bullying novel, Bystander, was commissioned by the Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation in Fall 2011. Using traditional theatre as well as...
Alberto’s Great Escape
AboutThe hero of the story is an Italian postal worker who, frustrated by his dead end job, finally reaches the end of his tether and decides to leave home and see the world. However, he is riven by indecision as he finds the gravitational pull of his family and the...
The Bellagio Fountain Has Been Known to Make Me Cry
AboutScratching lottery tickets and dreaming of fountains in Las Vegas, two Floridians indulge in fantastic plans of escape, while a minor problem unfolds: the ground is sinking beneath them. The Bellagio Fountain Has Been Known to Make Me Cry, intertwines two...
Alone in Triptych
AboutAlone in Triptych is an alternately thrilling, disturbing and darkly humorous play that investigates the hidden connections between three people linked by their aloneness. On their journeys of self-discovery, mythology collides with the modern world to reveal a...
Imperia Saves the World
AboutImperia, Save the World: ‘Cause Baby, No Worry, No Funk, Time to be Sunshine Drunk is a play with music and songs, incorporating puppets, video & projections, and starring: Imperia, a fictional goddess; Margaret Thatcher; Winnie Mandela, and Indira Gandhi, as...
She Who Burns: Le Cirque du Wonder World
AboutShe Who Burns: Le Cirque du Wonder World is a circus play in four acts. It incorporates circus acts, burlesque and a vast array of gender bending as it examines identity in the 21st Century; it is a very loose adaptation of the 1915 Russian play, He Who Gets...
WanderLUSTers present “Acthtung Grimm!”
AboutIn Wanderlusters Present “Achtung Grimm!” jobless circus stars stage the Brothers Grimm tales. A mix of comedy, song, dance, puppets and a lot of attitude make for a brilliant rediscovery of the Germanic tales. From Snow White’s Mirror Mirror singing how he...
Haunted Sailor
AboutThe Haunted Sailor was performed in July 2000 as part of the Judson House Project (a performance project produced by the Peculiar Works Project honoring the history of the Judson House building before its pending demolition, August 2000). THE BUZZ – Twenty-one...