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"I wanna go Florida," squeals a 3 foot tall rat from atop a papier m snowdrift. "I wanna go Florida where it's warm." The disconsolate rodent, who looks like a cross between a drowned muppet and a grocery bag,nike tn, is one of the quirkier creatures in Heart of the Beast's latest puppet and mask production, Winter Dreams. Like his fellows, he's seemingly oblivious to the fact that La Ni has put the kibosh on our winter. Instead of just stepping outside, the varmint jumps on a pogo stick and bounces to sunny Clickkeyword[Jamaica]" >Jamaica.

It definitely takes a leap of imagination to follow, but if you can embrace an anthropomorphic rat, the rest of Winter Dreams isn't too hard to accept. After all,karen millen dresses, we're talking puppets here,abercrombie and fitch, and puppets have a logic all their own. In a season that has seen two major film studios target kids with computer generated epics about nature's minutiae, there's certainly something comfortably organic about Heart of the Beast's shaggy creations. The lolling heads, bulging eyes,reebok, and lanky limbs have a charisma that defies explanation. First time master of puppets Clickkeyword[Alison+Heimstead]" >Alison Heimstead seems to know intuitively that all a show like this needs to succeed is a dash of atmosphere and a generous suspension of disbelief.

Fortunately, In the Heart of the Beast's beasts don't disappoint. Following the disaffected rat, a parade of puppets and masked dancers shuffle,abercrombie kids, bounce, and spin across the stage. There's a very sleepy bear, a snake who does a shadow dance against a muslin sheet, and a pack of timberwolves so exotically costumed that it's easy to forget there are people behind the masks. There's even a flock of puppet birds that makes a graceful, looping exit over the audience's head. As always,rolex replica, Heart of the Beast's staging is spectacular. Set to soporific, vaguely Celtic melodies, the action leaps seamlessly from traditional Punch and Judy style puppetry to mask dances,asics, with eerie excursions into Javanese shadow puppetry.

Of course,p90x workout sheets, the only accurate measure of a show like this is how it plays to the under 10 set. According to the squeals of delight, the highlight of Winter Dreams is a trio of adorably lumpy chipmunks that does a miniature Stooges routine before bedding down for the long winter's nap. There is, in fact, only one vignette that did not seem to resonate with the kiddies: a clunky and unimaginative bit in which a human polluter dumps toxic waste into a pristine pond and is transformed into a pink toad. (But then this company isn't named after a Clickkeyword[Che+Guevara]" >Che Guevara quote for nothing.) The ecology sermon ends quickly, and Winter Dreams segues into more wondrous things: towering white reindeer played by actors on stilts, and a puppets and pyrotechnics finale featuring the aurora borealis. The diapered segment of the crowd was unanimously enthusiastic.

Set in a "not too distant" future where all the furniture is a minty toothpaste blue, the Original Theatre Company's Soulcatcher is a puppet show for the conspiracy crowd. The second act is longer and considerably less convoluted. Dodger turns out to be a goner and eventually defenestrates himself. After a lot of crying and screaming, darling Clementine revives a repressed childhood memory and discovers why her petition for maternity has been denied by the state. Of course, she's been a puppet all along in a nefarious conspiracy of bureaucrats and nasty witch doctors.

Though this dystopian allegory is familiar to fiction and cinema, it doesn't necessarily translate well to the stage. To her credit,chi hair, Baber does an admirable job with an extremely complex story. If Soulcatcher stumbles occasionally over details,nba jerseys, it's also an evocative parable about health care and the potential for totalitarianism when an indifferent bureaucracy (read: HMO) is given control over birth and death (read: abortion and euthanasia). And if nothing else, this new company is to be congratulated for staging such challenging work in a season when theatrical fare takes on the consistency of a figgy pudding.

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