Open Eye Figure Theatre takes an ancient
October 29th, 2008 | RSS Feeds | Posted In: holiday pageant
Father Winter, played by big Luverne Seifert, opens Pageant with song and bit of audience revving. 10 Sommers moves Pageant along at an engaging 75minute clip in vignettes that span mankinds fall in the Garden of Eden all the way to the hope for redemption in the Nativity. Huth, well feathered in an elaborate angel costume, also plays the Archangel Gabriel, who speaks only through variety of wind instruments. Back to his full comic strength once more, after his injury, Kevin Kling plays both an aging Joseph and Mak, tippling shepherd.
Seifert also epitomizes earthy mankind in the form of John Huths chatty trumpet. Plump and rosycheeked, Seifert plays Tud with comic flair, as he bumbles through the story and comes into his own as one of three shepherds. Its simplicity and the sheer creativity of its Jeune Lunestyle playfulness gives the production an appealing ingenuousness, perhaps much like the original miracle plays, enacted on village greens. Open Eye Figure Theatre, Franklin Works, Franklin Avenue, Minneapolis. Susan Haas striking costume design ranges from magnificent duds for Father Winter, to homespun for the shepherds and extravagantly oddball angel outfits.
Mary, in the person of Amy Mathews, looks as though she might have stepped out of an oil painting. She plays the amusing Annunciation scene just slightly tongueincheek. In Medieval England, the clergy mounted the miracle plays on carts in villages to instruct an illiterate populace on religion. Sommers fills the role of snooping Lucifer, anxious to discover Gods new plan to redeem mankind from the Fall that he masterminded in Eden.
His jolly presence suggests that this figure might have been precursor for Santa Claus. Mary, in the person of Amy Mathews, looks as though she might have stepped out of an oil painting. Back to his full comic strength once more, after his injury, Kevin Kling plays both an aging Joseph and Mak, tippling shepherd. Huth, well feathered in an elaborate angel costume, also plays the Archangel Gabriel, who speaks only through variety of wind instruments. Call 6128235162.
Versatile Sarah Agnew plays both Teuful and Matin, junior angel. Sommers designs his simple but colorful set to look like triptych, with central curtained panel, where of the action takes place, and two side panels that serve as curtained doors. Actors and puppets romp through Open Eye Figures The Holiday Pageant Until 21, She plays the amusing Annunciation scene just slightly tongueincheek. Its simplicity and the sheer creativity of its Jeune Lunestyle playfulness gives the production an appealing ingenuousness, perhaps much like the original miracle plays, enacted on village greens. In mixing the sacred with the profane, Sommers follows long tradition.
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