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Firlefanz Puppets Present “Ubu Rex” at Steamer No. 10
Posted by Gail M. Burns - December 2009
Steamer No.10 Theatre’s
Eclectic Performances – Shows for an Adult Audience
Presents
UBU REX
By Alfred Jarry
Adapted By: Oakley Hall III
January 8, 9 at 8:pm
January 10 at 3:pm
Springing up from the art community that surrounded the now-defunct Firlefanz Gallery in Albany, the FIRLEFANZ PUPPETS is a talented troupe of more than two dozen puppeteers, artists, actors, designers and musicians with an unquenchable sense of adventure. The troupe is led by puppetmaster Ed Atkeson, whose mission is to present serious theater with puppets.
With “Ubu Rex” Firlefanz Puppets presents Oakley Hall III’s adaptation of Alfred Jarry’s harbinger of absurd theater, a biting satire of European philosophies and practices. The play will be directed by Oakley Hall of Lexington Conservatory Theater fame. Shakespearean actor Steven Patterson, former member of the Lexington group, will be voicing the main character, Pa Ubu. Music for the production will be by composer Mary Jane Leach from Valley Falls, NY.
Jarry’s plays are credited with a great number of literary innovations and are seen as major influences of the DADA and symbolist movements in art. Ubu Rex eliminates the dramatic actions from Shakespearean antecedents and uses scatological humor and farce to present Jarry’s view of art, literature, politics, the ruling classes, and current events.
FIRLEFANZ PUPPETS made its debut with the world premiere of Gene Mirabelli’s political comedy “Right in the Oval Office,” playing to packed houses in September, 2004. They followed with “Rhinoceros,” which had a sold-out run at Firlefanz Gallery in January, 2006. and later at Steamer No.10 Theatre. Smaller pieces “The Man at the Controls”, “the Frog Prince” and “Picasso, the Poet” have played at various venues in the Capital Region.
Firlefanz Puppets can be found on the web at http://www.firlefanzgallery.com/
Tickets: $15 Gen. Adm.
$12 Students Seniors
— advance purchase discount
Location: Steamer No.10 Theater – 500 Western Albany – 12203
Info: 518.438.5503 www.steamer10theatre.org art4kids@nycap.rr.com