May 05 Sunday
Appropriate for Mature Audiences. War themes will be addressed.
“The Light of Early Morning” is a giant adult puppet & new music theater production honoring local Esopus native matriarch, Sunksqua Mama Nuchwe. We discover & celebrate anew her footsteps that walked softly & swiftly beneath our now paved-over Ulster County highways & byways.
We are searching for what Mama Nuchwe can teach us about living through our own world crises. Ones that we share may reverberate the local annihilation & displacement of her Esopus tribe from Rosendale’s surrounding neighborhoods. Giant puppets preceded religion on world stages. Your children are welcome to accompany you as we aspire to become our better selves together.
Native American local author & expert, Evan Pritchard, is culminating the hour-long puppet presentation with a talk & launch of his new book honoring Mama Nuchwe. His books are for sale.
Local musicians are creating new music raging from Congolese West African eclectic to Pauline Oliveros inspired ‘deep listening’ soundscapes.
Everyone is invited to a reception at Redwing Blackbird Theater’s 413 Main St. Puppet Museum immediately following this historic puppet show & book launch. Thanks also to the Rosendale Library for publicizing this event & to the Rodney L. White Foundation for its substantial financial support.
May 16 Thursday
A one-woman show written and performed by Leigh Strimbeck
Original piano score written and performed by Jan Jurchak
Directed by Joshua Briggs
The Hyde is thrilled to present The Queen of Fenway: Isabella Stweart Gardner to honor the inspiration that Isabella Stewart Gardner and her collection had on Hyde Collection founders Charlotte and Louis Hyde.
Isabella Stewart Gardner (1840-1924) was born into wealth and married a wealthy Bostonian. But unlike many of the rich of her generation, she built a legacy that stands today in Boston. Her beautiful museum can still be seen exactly as she curated it over 100 years ago. This play tells her story, but also asks the questions: What drove her to collect? Why did she continue the building only 6 weeks after her husband’s passing? Why did she “freeze” the collection?
Come and meet the inimitable, estimable “Mrs. Jack”: Isabella Stewart Gardner.
“Just as a visit to the museum titillates and seduces the visitor with romantic corridors and hidden treasures, so does Leigh Strimbeck’s spectacular performance as Isabella Stewart Gardner. We are her confidantes as she tells the story of her life from a 20 year-old newlywed in 1860’s Boston to the widowed hostess at the opening of her beloved museum in 1903.
What a story it is and what a terrific storyteller to boot!” - Shelley A. Sackett Living Out Loud
Jul 14 Sunday
Sandglass teaches a method of puppet performance that has been developed over 30 years of workshops around the world. This year’s Summer Intensive training will pilot a new training model allowing for participants to choose a focused track of Puppet Construction (with Ines Zeller Bass), Puppetry Performance (with Shoshana Bass) or Directing for Puppet Theater (with Eric Bass). Classes are scheduled five and a half days per week. Participants will have evening access to work spaces. Applicants must select a first choice and second choice for the afternoon track. We will do our best to accommodate your first choice.
This year Sandglass is able to offer three scholarships for US-based BIPOC participants (inclusive of tuition, housing and community dinners). Scholarships are distributed on a first-come-first-serve basis.
Applications open March 1, 2024. Final application is due in our office on Wednesday, May 1st, 2024. (If sending via USPS, please allow at least 7 working days for the mail to arrive in our office on time). Applications accepted via email as well. Please visit sandglasstheater.org for more information.
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